A Comparison of Knives for Bread Slicing

Summary: Exhaustive experimental study of vertical partitioning in row-oriented DBs; taxonomy across three dimensions, six algorithms, and four apples-to-apples metrics. TPC-H/SSB results: HillClimb best; four orders of magnitude less computation; buffer size governs benefit; gains over column layouts are modest. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10701
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 4.827351e-05
Overall Rank: 7,114 | 50.51%
DOI: -

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592	A Heuristic Approach to Attribute Partitioning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00019547845
596	HYRISE—A Main Memory Hybrid Storage Engine	2011	VLDB	0.00019481482
1,999	Data Morphing: An Adaptive, Cache-Conscious Storage Technique	2003	VLDB	9.8235392e-05
2,729	Vertical Partitioning for Database Design: A Graphical Algorithm	1989	SIGMOD	8.2167214e-05
12,030	How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy	2013	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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