Ever since the revelation that not all data can be neatly stored in rows and columns, it seems that barely a day goes by without the emergence of yet another new database with its own query engine ...

Regardless, leveraging object storage yields cost savings similar to those derived from object storage-based data lakes that do store data in those open formats.

Spanner’s new columnar engine combines transaction and analytical processing without increasing overhead by using columnar storage: storing data in a columnar format alongside the existing row ...