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Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks

Summary: Shows many C‑store advantages for read‑mostly OLAP (compression, projection elimination, late materialization) can be simulated in unmodified row‑stores to approach C‑store performance. Pinpoints limits for complex queries and predicts RDBMSs will eventually natively adopt columnar techniques. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
118
Venue
CIDR
Year
2009
Pagerank
5.4242682e-05
Overall Rank
5,580 | 61.19%
DOI
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21 C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS 2005 VLDB 0.00086087497
35 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.00076197749
497 Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? 2008 SIGMOD 0.00021716559
3,616 XML and Relational Database Management Systems: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2005 SIGMOD 6.9116981e-05
3,764 Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth 2008 VLDB 6.7797554e-05
6,051 Spatial Indexing in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 2008 SIGMOD 5.2347385e-05
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