Column Stores For Wide and Sparse Data
Summary: Argues column-stores sustain performance on extremely wide tables and naturally compress/skip sparse attributes, avoiding degradation common in row-stores. Proposes column-stores as a promising storage layer for Semantic Web, XML, and GEM-style schemas. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Daniel J. Abadi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{abadi_cidr07,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '07},
title = {{Column Stores For Wide and Sparse Data}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Abadi, Daniel J.},
year = {2007}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 376 | Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning | 2007 | VLDB | 0.0001961765 |
| 1,745 | Sinew: A SQL System for Multi-Structured Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 9.7324334e-05 |
| 2,157 | Brighthouse: An Analytic Data Warehouse for Ad-hoc Queries | 2008 | VLDB | 8.9425625e-05 |
| 3,206 | Columnar Storage and List-based Processing for Graph Database Management Systems | 2021 | VLDB | 7.5365348e-05 |
| 7,353 | Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning | 2025 | CIDR | 5.5424978e-05 |
| 8,295 | Relational Support for Flexible Schema Scenarios | 2008 | VLDB | 5.3589408e-05 |
| 10,704 | FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,840 | Bridging the Indexing Gap in Fused GPU Query Engines | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,323 | Improving Time Series Data Compression in Apache IoTDB | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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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 | 0.0006897844 |
| 14 | MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution | 2005 | CIDR | 0.00064013679 |
| 48 | Weaving Relations for Cache Performance | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00043795812 |
| 61 | Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00039236924 |
| 96 | The Database Language GEM | 1983 | SIGMOD | 0.00034271712 |
| 141 | Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities | 1999 | VLDB | 0.0002928095 |
| 401 | A Case for Fractured Mirrors | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00019102313 |
| 882 | An Efficient SQL-based RDF Querying Scheme | 2005 | VLDB | 0.00013271863 |
| 980 | Sybase IQ Multiplex – Designed For Analytics | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00012717512 |
| 1,056 | Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012243086 |
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