MariaDB has released into general availability ColumnStore 1.0, a storage engine allows users to run analytics and transactional processes simultaneously with a single front end on the MariaDB 10.1 database.
While the open source community pushed back against the licensing model of MariaDB’s MaxScale database proxy, ColumnStore is open source, licensed under GPLv2.
ColumnStore is a fork of InnoDB database engine, the default storage engine for MySQL. Despite the popularity of SQL alternatives, the company notes that every OLTP (online transaction processing) and analytics solution has been building a SQL layer.
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