Model Kit for Lightweight Data Compression Algorithms

Modern database systems are very often in the position to store and efficiently process their entire data in main memory. Aside from increased main memory capacities, a further driver for in-memory database systems has been the shift to a column-oriented storage format in combination with lightweight data compression techniques. In recent years, a lot of lightweight data compression algorithms have been developed to efficiently support different data characteristics. Therefore, database systems should include a large number of these algorithms. To enable this, we introduce our novel modularization concept including our model kit implementation for lightweight data compression algorithms.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: EDBT
• Keywords: Database, EDBT 2016