Re: Column oriented pgsql

If you are looking for a column based dbms, you might want to check out
Monet - it is a columnar database.

http://monetdb.cwi.nl/

For some applications, columnar databases can be much faster than
traditional rdbms systems. However, column based databases are not a
'one size fits all' answer.

Brent Friedman

Mag Gam wrote:
> Got it thanks!
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> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Christophe <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On May 8, 2009, at 11:25 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
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>>> you read your tables by column, rather than by row??
>>> SQL queries are inherently row oriented, the fundamental unit of storage
>>> is a 'tuple', which is a representation of a row of a table.
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>> I believe what is referring to is the disk storage organization, clustering
>> a single column from multiple rows together onto a page. For example, if
>> your typical use of a table is to read one particular column from a large
>> number of rows, this could (in theory) improve performance.
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>> AFAIK, PostgreSQL doesn't support this.
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