What difference between columnar database (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, GCP Bigquery, Snowflake) and wide column database (AWS Keyspaces, Azure CosmosDB, GCP Bigtable, Hbase, Cassandra)?
What I understand so far:
- Columnar databases are SQL (ACID transactions compliant) and wide column databases are NoSQL (Scalability, etc)
- Columnar databases (AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, GCP Bigquery, Snowflake) are warehouses and wide column databases (AWS Keyspaces, Azure CosmosDB, GCP Bigtable, Hbase, Cassandra) are just "pure" databases