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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bruno_cidr09,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '09},
title = {{Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Bruno, Nicolas},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 759 | The case against specialized graph analytics engines | 2015 | CIDR | 0.00014273591 |
| 12,227 | How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy | 2013 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00069513174 |
| 14 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.0006312782 |
| 345 | Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00020656723 |
| 3,408 | XML and Relational Database Management Systems: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 | 2005 | SIGMOD | 7.4370792e-05 |
| 3,489 | Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth | 2008 | VLDB | 7.3670717e-05 |
| 5,857 | Spatial Indexing in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 | 2008 | SIGMOD | 6.0644613e-05 |
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