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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a column-oriented data-storage and processing engine that enables fast analysis of large volumes of data in a database system.
In recent years, column-oriented databases have emerged as a system that allows for better speed when reading and analyzing large volumes of data, as a counterpart to existing row-oriented databases, which are suited to handling data updates. But problems have been either that the changes to row-oriented data cannot be automatically reflected in column-oriented data, or that the size of the column-oriented data is constrained by installed memory.
Fujitsu has developed an engine that, running on a PostgreSQL open-source database, without being dependent on memory capacity, instantly updates column-oriented data in response to changes in row-oriented data, and processes column-oriented data quickly. The engine quickly analyzes indexes(1), which are provided by most database systems, and can be used by developers without special consideration to whether the storage method is row-oriented or column-oriented. With a parallel-processing engine especially suited for processing column-oriented data, analyses run on a single CPU core are conducted 4 times faster than before, and one server equipped with 15 CPU cores can run analyses at least 50 times faster.
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