Best Columnar Databases

BigQuery is a fully managed, AI-ready data analytics platform that helps you maximize value from your data and is designed to be multi-engine, multi-format, and multi-cloud. Store 10 GiB of data and

Snowflake makes enterprise AI easy, efficient and trusted. Thousands of companies around the globe, including hundreds of the world’s largest, use Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud to share data, build applic

Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon Redshift, a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your

We power the time-aware data-driven decisions that enable fast-moving organizations to realize the full potential of their AI investments and outpace competitors. Our technology delivers transforma

Vertica is the unified analytics platform, based on a massively scalable architecture with a broad set of analytical functions spanning event and time series, pattern matching, geospatial, and built-i

An Open-Source Database System

MariaDB frees companies from the costs, constraints and complexity of proprietary databases, enabling them to reinvest in what matters most – rapidly developing innovative, customer-facing application

Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format available to any project in the Hadoop ecosystem, regardless of the choice of data processing framework, data model or programming language.

ClickHouse is the fastest and most resource efficient real-time database and data warehouse. ClickHouse is optimized to serve a wide range of data-intensive workloads, from powering interactive user-f

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Store any type of data and combine the simplicity of SQL with the scalability of NoSQL. CrateDB is an open source, multi-model, distrib

A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables. Use HBase when you need random, realtime read/write access to Big Data.

StarTree Cloud is a fully-managed user-facing real-time analytics Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) designed for OLAP at massive speed and scale. Based on Apache Pinot™, StarTree Cloud provides enterprise

Apache Kudu is a free and open source column-oriented data store of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

Apache Druid is an open source real-time analytics database. Druid combines ideas from OLAP/analytic databases, timeseries databases, and search systems to create a complete real-time analytics soluti

Apache ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format for Hadoop workloads.