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What Is a Columnar Database? (2026 Guide)
A practitioner's guide to columnar databases: what they are, why they reshaped analytics, when to use one, and when to stick with Postgres. Updated for 2026.
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··10 min read
Community
The Dive: Arc Community Forum Is Live
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··3 min
Tutorials
Send Home Assistant Data to Arc, Queryable Forever
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··12 min
Engineering
Arc Enterprise Deployment Patterns: Shared Storage vs Local
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··8 min
Product
Arc 26.05.1: Enterprise GA. Helm, Replication, Failover, Hardening.
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··16 min
Engineering
Continuous Queries in Arc: Automatic Downsampling That Just Works
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··6 min
Engineering
5 InfluxDB Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Comparison
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··16 min
Engineering
Why Your AI Agent Observability Tool Is Wrong About Memory
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··11 min
Engineering
Retention Policies in Arc: How We Delete Data Without Rewriting Files
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··7 min
Engineering
Arc on ClickBench: DuckDB. The Engine Inside the Engine.
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··13 min
Tutorials
Chat with Your Arc Data: Connect Claude Desktop via MCP
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··7 min
Engineering
How Parquet Compaction Works in Arc (and Why It Runs in a Subprocess)
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··6 min
Engineering
Arc on ClickBench: StarRocks. This One Depends on the Machine.
Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck··9 minReady to handle billion-record workloads?
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