Over the last decades, improvements in CPU speed have outpaced improvements in main memory and disk access rates by orders of magnitude, enabling the use of data compression techn...
The ParAccel Analytic DatabaseTM is a fast shared-nothing parallel relational database system with a columnar orientation, adaptive compression, memory-centric design, and an enha...
Yijou Chen, Richard L. Cole, William J. McKenna, S...
Compressed bitmap indexes are increasingly used for efficiently querying very large and complex databases. The Word Aligned Hybrid (WAH) bitmap compression scheme is commonly rec...
Column-oriented database system architectures invite a reevaluation of how and when data in databases is compressed. Storing data in a column-oriented fashion greatly increases th...