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In this special guest feature, Jamie Clark, Senior Developer at Dimensional Insight, discusses why columnar databases are the future of business intelligence as massive amounts of data continue to ...

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Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

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When I listed 5 data management technologies you probably should know more about, two of them were data warehouse appliances and columnar DBMS. And that was before today’s announcement that Microsoft ...

There are more choices than ever in the data management market and, in the view of some industry observers, we now have an increasingly specialized market, providing a wide range of options to manage ...

So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. There are a lot of different ways to accomplish this, and now, there is yet another — and ...