Bitmaps are amazing and we believe that they will replace all other data formats for analytics.
Today we open sourced about $25m in R&D (more to come)! They take a bit of harnessing, but once you do the results are amazing. We have released an OLAP database called FeatureBase, built entirely on bitmaps (well bitmaps in a b-tree)...
Here is a bit (pun intended) more about our big bet on bitmaps: https://www.featurebase.com/blog/bitmaps-making-real-time-an...