Saturday, August 29, 2009

VLDB09 Overview, part 2 « Technofeel

VLDB09 Overview, part 2 « Technofeel: "the '10-year award keynote', rewarding the most influencing paper of the last decade. The award was attributed to the MonetDB staff for their paper 'Database Architecture Optimized for the New Bottleneck: Memory Access' describing a novel approach to database storage (column storage, well known nowadays) and to the join operation optimized for the CPU cache, thus avoiding the overhead of memory access, and how the column oriented engine allow for . They also talked about vectorwise and its enhanced query computation pipeline performing batch hit operations. Well done guys, it's a pretty impressive work !"

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