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Columnar Database Central
Columnar databases and columnar/row hybrid databases are becoming an essential component of an enterprise infrastructure for the storage of data designed to run specific workloads. When an organization embraces the value of performance, it must do everything it can to remove barriers to the delivery of the right information at the right time to the right people and systems.
The major significant difference between columnar and row-based stores is that all the columns of a table are not stored successively in storage – in the data pages. This allows the columnar database to eliminate unneeded columns from query processing and provides unique opportunities for advanced compression and storage savings.
Columnar storage reduces the primary bottleneck in analytic queries: I/O. CPUs continue to sit idle more often than desired. One of the primary reasons for this is that complete records are sent through memory and caches by row-based systems, which are designed to process rows instead of columns.
COLUMNAR DATABASE EDUCATION
Learn about columnar databases with our white paper Best Practices in the use of Columnar Databases.
Or read a popular 5-part blog series on Understanding Columnar Database Fundamentals starting here.
Or see William give a presentation at the NoSQL Now! Conference on Columnar Databases in San Jose in August, 2011.
William’s popular seminar on columnar databases is available for your group or company event. Contact us here.
COLUMNAR DATABASE SELECTION
We’ll help or run your decision process, including RFIs, RFPs and POCs as necessary for your columnar database platform. We offer a vendor neutral approach backed by experience with a broad range of columnar and hybrid databases including InfiniDB, ParAccel, Teradata, Microsoft, Informix, InfoBright, HP/Vertica and Sybase IQ.
If you’re on a database management system that has recently added columnar capabilities (Teradata, Microsoft, Informix), we are the go-to firm for determining which workloads make sense to migrate and for developing the plan.
COLUMNAR DATABASE IMPLEMENTATIONS
McKnight provides complete end-to-end columnar database implementations guided by best practices and methodology so that your business can access real-time analytical data on uniquely compressed, low cost systems beginning with a free trial of software. Our agile approach allows you to start small and establish repeatable processes, so you begin seeing results quickly. We perform workload assessment, analytics use assessment and requirements followed by implementation.
Columnar databases provide a range of benefits to an environment needing to expand the envelope to improve performance of the overall analytic workload. All companies have workloads that would benefit tremendously from a columnar orientation. Columnar database benefits are exacerbated with larger amounts of data, large scans and I/O bound queries. In providing the performance benefits, they also have unique abilities to compress their data. Like cubes, data warehouses and Hadoop, they are an important component of a modern, heterogeneous environment. By following guidelines and moving the best workloads to columnar databases, an organization is best enabled to pursue the full utilization of the important asset of information.
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