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)
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Authors
- 1. Daniel J. Abadi (Yale University)
- 2. Samuel R. Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Nabil Hachem (AvantGarde Consulting LLC)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{abadi_sigmod08,
title = {{Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?}},
author = {Abadi, Daniel J. and Madden, Samuel R. and Hachem, Nabil},
series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376712},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376712},
year = {2008}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 390 | QPipe: A Simultaneously Pipelined Relational Query Engine | 2005 | SIGMOD | 0.00019265472 |
| 401 | A Case for Fractured Mirrors | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00019102313 |
| 634 | Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00015367822 |
| 939 | Buffering Database Operations for Enhanced Instruction Cache Performance | 2004 | SIGMOD | 0.00012964695 |
| 2,732 | Efficient Execution of Joins in a Star Schema | 2002 | SIGMOD | 8.0785175e-05 |
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