Thu, 2016-04-28 07:33Nishant Vyas
MariaDB’s new analytics engine – MariaDB ColumnStore - has been in the works for some time. What is it and how did it come about? This post outlines our thinking in choosing the engine and features we implemented.
Databases are expanding from their roots as systems of record into new analytics applications that some people call “systems of intelligence.” That means that instead of just storing and querying transactional data, databases are increasingly being used to yield insights, predict the future and prescribe actions users should take. Led by the open-source Hadoop ecosystem, online analytic processing (OLAP) is making its way out of the corporate data center and into the hands of everyone who needs it.
In the last decade, as data analytics became more important, solving these problems became …
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