Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?
Summary: Column-stores outperform row-stores on analytics; vertical partitioning cannot bridge the gap. The paper dissects executor-level factors, showing gains from vectorized execution, compression, and a new join algorithm, arguing that realizing column-store benefits requires changes to both storage and the query engine. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Daniel J. Abadi
- 2. Samuel R. Madden
- 3. Nabil Hachem
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 60 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,937 | Rethink Query Optimization in HTAP Databases | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.2482599e-05 |
| 10,030 | Perseus: Achieving Strong Consistency and High Data Freshness for Scalable Geo-distributed HTAP | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,175 | Improving LZ4 for Effective Compression and Efficient Query | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,220 | FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads | 2026 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,265 | AQD: Online Adaptive Query Dispatcher for HTAP Databases | 2026 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,556 | Efficient Concurrent Updates to Persistent Randomized Binary Search Trees | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,636 | Concurrency Control as a Service | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,150 | Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data | 2023 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,212 | SH2O: Efficient Data Access for Work-Sharing Databases | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,030 | How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy | 2013 | CIDR | 4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00086087497 |
| 35 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00076197749 |
| 80 | Weaving Relations for Cache Performance | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00055721729 |
| 131 | Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.0004370331 |
| 464 | A Case for Fractured Mirrors | 2002 | VLDB | 0.0002245871 |
| 515 | QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00021214633 |
| 710 | Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00017765454 |
| 1,050 | Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00014453896 |
| 2,795 | Efficient Execution of Joins in a Star Schema | 2002 | SIGMOD | 8.1128059e-05 |
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