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Every column store I sold is gone. The format won instead.

Aug 13, 2026

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12 min read

Every column store I sold is gone. The format won instead.

Full Table Scan, issue 2. Twenty years from MySQL to Infobright to Exasol to DuckDB, most of it spent selling engines that no longer exist, and why Parquet is the only thing that actually survived.

Tom Barber, +1

OLAP

Everyone finally agreed on what a metric is

Jul 24, 2026

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13 min read

Everyone finally agreed on what a metric is

Full Table Scan, issue 1. The Open Semantic Interchange, its new home at the Apache Software Foundation, and what happened when I taught Saiku to speak it. The honest version, including the bits we have not finished.

Tom Barber, +1

OLAP

Jul 11, 2026

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3 min read

DuckDB, scanned

The analytics engine that fits in a laptop and a whole data stack at the same time. I ran it hard, then wired it into Saiku.

Juan Resendiz