Columnar databases and how they can help with the data avalanche
Note: This article was originally published at Zend Developer Zone
on 20 July 2010.
There are gargantuan amounts of data that organizations are storing thanks to the advent of really cheap storage. To cope with this, organizations end up buying bigger and bigger database servers/clusters. But maybe, just maybe, there's a shortcut. This coming Thursday (July 22nd) Zend is having a webinar with InfoBright looking at how a columnar databases can help deal with analytical data requests on large amounts of data.


