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The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

Big-data company Databricks Inc. wants to help enterprises dig into their vast troves of data even faster, so today it launched a new, high-performance query engine for cloud-based data lakes. The ...

Apache Druid is known for its capability to deliver sub-second responses to queries against petabytes of fast-moving data arriving via Kafka or Kinesis. With the latest milestone of Project Shapeshift ...

Dremio Corp., developer of a self-service data analytics technology based on the Apache Arrow in-memory columnar data processing framework, today announced a version of its product delivered as a ...

Query compilation and execution form the critical backbone of database systems, where high-level queries are translated into efficient low-level machine code and then executed to retrieve data.

NoSQL databases arose in response to the limitations of using SQL (Structured Query Language) for database queries. NoSQL databases store and manage data in ways that enable high operational speed and ...