List of column-oriented DBMSes
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This article is a list of column-oriented database management system software.
Free and open-source software ( FOSS )
| Database name | Language implemented in | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Doris | Java & C++ | Open source (since 2017), database for high-concurrency point queries and high-throughput analysis. |
| Apache Druid | Java | Started in 2011 for low-latency massive ingestion and queries. Support and extensions available from Imply Data. |
| Apache Kudu | C++ | Released in 2016 to complete the Apache Hadoop ecosystem |
| Apache Pinot | Java | Open sourced in 2015 for real-time low-latency analytics. Support and extensions available from StarTree. |
| Go | Columnar analytical database built on DuckDB, Parquet, and Apache Arrow. Supports Line Protocol, MessagePack, and SQL. Released under AGPL-3.0. Published in 2025 by Basekick Labs for product analytics, observability, IoT telemetry, and AI-agent memory workloads. | |
| Calpont InfiniDB | C++ | |
| ClickHouse | C++ | Released in 2016 to analyze data that is updated in real time |
| CrateDB | Java | |
| C-Store | C++ | The last release of the original code was in 2006; Vertica a commercial fork, lives on. |
| DuckDB | C++ | An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS |
| Databend | Rust | An elastic and reliable Serverless Data Warehouse |
| InfluxDB | Rust | Time series database |
| Greenplum Database | C | Support and extensions available from VMware. |
| HEAVY.AI | C++ | Formerly MapD |
| MariaDB ColumnStore | C & C++ | Formerly Calpont InfiniDB |
| Metakit | C++ | |
| MonetDB | C | Open-source (since 2004) columnar Relational DBMS pioneer |
| PostgreSQL cstore fdw, vops | C | cstore_fdw uses ORC format |
| StarRocks | Java & C++ | Open source, unified analytics platform for batch and real-time analytics. Supports and extensions available from CelerData. |
| VictoriaMetrics | Go | Time series database |
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Amazon Redshift
- – Arc Cloud, managed hosting for the Arc columnar analytical database.
- Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics (formerly Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
- Google BigQuery
- Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC)
- Snowflake Computing
- MariaDB SkySQL
- Actian Avalanche
- Vertica Accelerator
- CelerData
Proprietary
- Actian Vector (formerly VectorWise)
- Actuate Corporation BIRT Analytics ColumnarDB
- Dimensional Insight
- Endeca
- EXASOL
- EXtremeDB
- IBM Db2
- Infobright
- KDB
- kdb+
- memSQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle Database (in-memory option)
- SAND CDBMS
- SAP HANA
- SAP IQ
- SenSage
- SQream
- Teradata
- Vertica (developed from open source C-Store)
- Yellowbrick Data