How to: Wide column
Wide column databases, also known as wide column stores, are schema-agnostic. Data is stored in column families, rather than in rows and columns.

**Advantages**

- Highly scalable, can handle petabytes of data
- Ideal for real-time big data applications

**Disadvantages**

- Expensive
- Increased write time

**Use cases**

- Business analytics
- Attribute-based data storage

**Examples**

- [BigTable](https://cloud.google.com/bigtable)
- [Apache Cassandra](https://cassandra.apache.org)
- [ScyllaDB](https://www.scylladb.com)