columnstore
/ˈkɒl.əm.stɔ(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A database storage method that stores data tables by columns rather than rows, optimizing for analytical query performance.
Example Sentences
- "The HPDB is the functional repository for time-series market data. Unlike a standard database, which reads rows of data, HPDBs are columnstore databases."
- "In order to achieve optimal performance, PolyBase is capable of dynamically creating columnstore tables, parallalizing data extraction from Hadoop and Azure sources, or pushing computations on Hadoop-based data to Hadoop clusters where necessary."
- "When first introduced, batch mode execution was closely integrated with the columnstore storage format."