Re: 'Theoretical' DB OS

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:08:00 +0100
Message-ID: <4605af2c$0$324$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

christianlott1 wrote:
> paul c wrote:
>

>> Like some others here, I'm just guessing at what you mean, but "files
>> are attributes" suggests to me that it is something similar to what some
>> people call a "column-based store".

>
> Good lead. I'll search and read about this.

MonetDB calls it row-cracking:
http://www-db.cs.wisc.edu/cidr/cidr2007/papers/cidr07p07.pdf

> ok. So what does this mean? Is it good or bad?

Extremely good for read-only (or write-once read many times) data. The MonetDB team claims full relational algebra support, but I haven't seen any performance data about that yet. Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 18:08:00 CDT