Ask HN: Which is a good Column Store database?

<a href="http://Vertica.com" rel="nofollow">http://Vertica.com</a> - it's founded by Michael Stonebraker who started Ingres, Postgres and now Vertica.

BigTable clones like Cassandra (<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/" rel="nofollow">http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/</a>) and Hypertable (<a href="http://www.hypertable.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hypertable.org/</a>) can be used in a column-oriented fashion. Both use column families to group related columns.

It might be better to say what use case you're looking for and then go from there.<p>Column-oriented storage is basically an implementation detail for exploiting certain types of data-locality patterns; there may be things which fit your needs which exploit that in different ways.

If looking to scale and store massive amount of data over multiple machines checkout Apache Cassandra. Otherwise, BerkeleyDB should be sufficient.