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Advanced Data Management
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Advanced Data Management

by Lena Wiese
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
11h 5m
English
De Gruyter
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7 Column Stores

A row store is a row-oriented relational database as it was reviewed in Section 2.1. That is, data are stored in tables and on disk the data in a row are stored consecutively. This row-wise storage is currently used in most RDBMSs. In contrast, a column store is a column-oriented relational database. That is, data are stored in tables but on disk data in a column are stored consecutively.

This chapter discusses column stores and shows that they work very well for certain queries – for example queries that can be executed on compressed data. In such cases, column stores have the advantage of both a compact storage as well as efficient query execution. Conversion of nested records into columnar representation is a further topic ...

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