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Arrow Aims to Defrag Big In-Memory Analytics

You probably haven't heard of Apache Arrow yet. But judging by the people behind this in-memory columnar technology and the speed at which it just became a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation, you're goni Read more…

How to Speed Your Data Warehouse by 148x

Data analytic applications built on a combination of IBM's DB2 BLU column-oriented data store and servers equipped with Intel's latest Xeon E7 v2 processors can run up to 148 times faster than if they were running on the standard row-oriented DB2 engine and first-gen Xeon E7 processors, the companies announced last month. Read more…

Microsoft’s SQL Server 2014 Adds In-Memory, Updates Columnar

Everybody wants their databases to retrieve and store information faster, and with SQL Server 2014, which is released to manufacturing today, Microsoft is tweaking its columnar data store as well as integrating its first in-memory database technology to boost transaction processing and data warehousing workloads, respectively. Read more…

MapR Embraces Co-Existence with Hadoop Update

MapR Technologies today unveiled new products based on the Hadoop version 2 codebase that it says will allow customers to continue to run MapReduce version 1 applications while also reaping the rewards of a post-YARN Hadoop world. The company also announced the capability to run the HP Vertica columnar analytic database directly on its Hadoop stack. Read more…

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