Column-oriented Database Systems
Summary: Tutorial overview of column stores: per-column contiguous storage enables compression, dense packing, and fast projection scans, trading off scattered I/O and updates. Surveys their architecture, relationship to row systems, performance, applications, and open research challenges. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Daniel J. Abadi (Yale University)
- 2. Peter A. Boncz (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
- 3. Stavros Harizopoulos (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)
BibTeX Citation
@article{abadi_vldb09,
title = {{Column-oriented Database Systems}},
author = {Abadi, Daniel J. and Boncz, Peter A. and Harizopoulos, Stavros},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687625},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687625},
year = {2009}
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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 |
| 61 | Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00039236924 |
| 114 | A Decomposition Storage Model | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00031916625 |
| 331 | Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.0002076806 |
| 634 | Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00015367822 |
| 762 | Cooperative Scans: Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing in a DBMS | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00014134432 |
| 1,485 | Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00010531092 |
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