Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

One of the new features in Android 6.0 Marshmallow is the ability to treat microSD cards as if they were internal storage. If you have a cheap phone with 8GB of storage or less, this can let you ...

The latest open source Big Data project to be advanced to top-level status by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is Kudu, a "columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem designed to ...

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

MariaDB Corporation, the commercial entity behind the MariaDB open source relational database that began life as a "fork" of MySQL, is today announcing a new version of its platform. The release, ...

Analytical workloads differ from transactional workloads in that most queries read a small subset of columns for very large numbers of rows. To optimize for these demands, most analytical databases ...

Google has updated its managed database service — Spanner — with a new columnar engine to help enterprises run complex analytical queries on real-time transactional data for better decision-making.