Companies that keep hitting their heads on performance limitations of existing analytics databases may want to check out the fast new cloud analytics offering rolled out today by StarRocks, the ...

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This introductory session is perfect for those coming from a relational background and wanting to get hands-on with a denormalized database that has no tables, rows, primary keys, or foreign keys, yet ...

The backlash against the buzzword of the year -- big data -- to some extent has begun. As Forrester's James Kobielus so eloquently put it, “Some shiny new thing gets built up until it’s too big for ...

When dealing with data, you may have to know the fact table vs dimension table differences. A fact table holds the data that needs to be analyzed, and a dimension table stores data dealing with how ...