The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, are a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized for transactional workloads. While ...

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The key features of the InfiniDB columnar database create an elegant architecture for today’s large-volume, high-speed analytics applications. InfiniDB’s column partitioning, use of compression and ...