C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS

Summary: Column-oriented, read-optimized DBMS; column storage, packed data, and in-memory processing via column projections. Bitmap indexes with B-trees; high-availability, read-only snapshot isolation transactions; TPCH results show substantial speedups over commercial systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9336
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00070779065
Overall Rank: 12 | 99.92%
DOI: -

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12,169	No Bits Left Behind	2011	CIDR	5.1725247e-05
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1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024179717
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251	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00023504842
317	An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates	1997	SIGMOD	0.00021456579
598	"One Size Fits All" Database Architectures Do Not Work For DSS	1995	SIGMOD	0.0001601329
797	Exploiting Inter-Operation Parallelism in XPRS	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013986525
917	DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013279264
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