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What is Wide Column Stores?
January 13, 2013
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As mentioned in my earlier article for Key-Value Stores, wide column stores have tables which contains columns. The small difference is that Wide Column Stores takes a hybrid approach mixing the declarative characteristics game of relational databases with the key-value pair based and totally variables schema of key-value stores. Wide Column databases stores data tables as sections of columns of data rather than as rows of data. Read more…