Column-oriented databases store data by columns rather than by rows, enabling efficient queries over large datasets, especially in analytical workloads.
Cassandra (Option A): An open-source, highly scalable, distributed column-oriented NoSQL database.
HBase (Option B): An open-source, Hadoop-based, column-family NoSQL database modeled after Google BigTable.
Accumulo (Option C): An open-source, secure, sorted, distributed key/value store built on top of HDFS and based on Google BigTable.
Since all three (A, B, and C) are open-source column-oriented databases, the correct answer is Option E (All of the above).
[Reference:, DASCA Data Scientist Knowledge Framework (DSKF) – Big Data Fundamentals: Columnar Databases & NoSQL Ecosystem., ]