C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS
Summary: C-Store introduces a read-optimized relational architecture built around columnar storage, packed in-memory processing, overlapping projections, bitmap indexes, and snapshot-isolated high availability. Preliminary TPC-H results show substantial gains over commercial row stores. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Mike Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Daniel J. Abadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Adam Batkin (Brandeis University)
- 4. Xuedong Chen (University of Massachusetts Boston)
- 5. Mitch Cherniack (Brandeis University)
- 6. Miguel Ferreira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 7. Edmond Lau (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 8. Amerson Lin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 9. Sam Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 10. Elizabeth O'Neil (University of Massachusetts Boston)
- 11. Pat O'Neil (University of Massachusetts Boston)
- 12. Alex Rasin (Brown University)
- 13. Nga Tran (Brandeis University)
- 14. Stan Zdonik (Brown University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{stonebraker_vldb05,
title = {{C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS}},
author = {Stonebraker, Mike and Abadi, Daniel J. and Batkin, Adam and Chen, Xuedong and Cherniack, Mitch and Ferreira, Miguel and Lau, Edmond and Lin, Amerson and Madden, Sam and O'Neil, Elizabeth and O'Neil, Pat and Rasin, Alex and Tran, Nga and Zdonik, Stan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '05},
pages = {553--564},
year = {2005}
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| 12,117 | Purity: Building Fast, Highly-Available Enterprise Flash Storage from Commodity Components | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,138 | GIS Navigation Boosted by Column Stores | 2015 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,227 | How Achaeans Would Construct Columns in Troy | 2013 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,357 | No Bits Left Behind | 2011 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,445 | CODS: Evolving Data Efficiently and Scalably in Column Oriented Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,464 | Efficient Skyline Evaluation over Partially Ordered Domains | 2010 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,524 | Adaptively Parallelizing Distributed Range Queries | 2009 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,562 | Effective and Efficient Semantic Web Data Management over DB2 | 2008 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0024089429 |
| 14 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.0006312782 |
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058720861 |
| 104 | Improved Query Performance with Variant Indexes | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.00033932213 |
| 188 | Data Placement In Bubba | 1988 | SIGMOD | 0.00026126036 |
| 258 | Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00023131981 |
| 324 | An Array-Based Algorithm for Simultaneous Multidimensional Aggregates | 1997 | SIGMOD | 0.00021200835 |
| 608 | "One Size Fits All" Database Architectures Do Not Work For DSS | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00015795625 |
| 830 | Exploiting Inter-Operation Parallelism in XPRS | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00013761367 |
| 943 | DynaMat: A Dynamic View Management System for Data Warehouses | 1999 | SIGMOD | 0.00013068595 |
| 1,091 | Incremental Maintenance of Externally Materialized Views | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00012226764 |
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