C-Store

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:C-store also stands for convenience store

C-Store is a database management system (DBMS) based on a column-oriented DBMS developed by a team at Brown University, Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including Michael Stonebraker and Samuel Madden (MIT).

C-Store differs from most traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) designs in many ways, perhaps most notably in that it stores data by column and not by row, and that it is not optimized for writing.

C-Store is licensed under the BSD license. Stonebraker and his colleagues have formed a company – Vertica – to commercialize C-Store.

[edit] Bibliography

• Stonebraker, Mike; et al. (2005). "C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS" (PDF). Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference. 

[edit] External links

• C-store home page.
• Greg Linden (2006-05-16). Comparison of C-Store and BigTable (blog). Geeking with Greg.