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Friday, September 7, 2007

Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete

In the past I have seen databases with hundreds of columns and thought it was extremely bad practice and generally unmaintainable.

I should keep in mind that bad and good are really just opinions of the masses, and one size doesn't necessarily fit all. 

Column databases "will take over the warehouse market over time, completely displacing row stores," Stonebraker wrote. "Since many warehouse users are in considerable pain (can't load in the available load window, can't support ad-hoc queries, can't get better performance without a "fork-lift" upgrade), I expect this transition to column stores will occur fairly quickly."

Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete

Stonebraker's blog, The Database Column, offers more on the subject of wide-not-deep databases that offer 50x the performance of relational databases for data warehousing applications.

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