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The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems

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  • Daniel Abadi
  • Peter Boncz
  • Stavros Harizopoulos
  • Stratos Idreos
  • Samuel Madden

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In this article, we survey recent research on column-oriented database systems, or column-stores, where each attribute of a table is stored in a separate file or region on storage. Such databases have seen a resurgence in recent years with a rise in interest in analytic queries that perform scans and aggregates over large portions of a few columns of a table. The main advantage of a column-store is that it can access just the columns needed to answer such queries. We specifically focus on three influential research prototypes, MonetDB, VectorWise, and C-Store. These systems have formed the basis for several well-known commercial column-store implementations. We describe their similarities and differences and discuss their specific architectural features for compression, late materialization, join processing, vectorization and adaptive indexing (database cracking).

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  • Daniel Abadi & Peter Boncz & Stavros Harizopoulos & Stratos Idreos & Samuel Madden, "undated". "The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems," Working Paper 136711, Harvard University OpenScholar.
    • Handle: RePEc:qsh:wpaper:136711
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