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Recommendations for column-oriented database


I've found databases typically come in two flavors, your traditional row-oriented RDBMS or an object oriented database (OODBMS). However, in the mid 90s I remember, a new breed of databases showing up that were column oriented. Some of these were given the term 4GL, but I don't think it was a term that stuck.

What I'd like to know is the following:

The two column oriented databases that I remember working with are FAME and KDB.


Solution

  • HBase is an open-source column-oriented database system modelled on Google's BigTable.