C-Store

This article is about the database system. For the retail business, see 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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts Boston including Michael Stonebraker, Stanley Zdonik, and Samuel Madden. The last release of the original code was in 2006; Vertica a commercial fork, lives on.

C-Store differs from most traditional relational database management system (RDBMS) designs in many ways, primarily in that it stores data by column and not by row, optimizing the database for reading of data rather than writing.

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

See also

• H-Store

Bibliography

• Stonebraker, Mike; et al. (2005). "C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS" (PDF). Proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference. Trondheim, Norway. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-19. Retrieved 2010-01-31.

External links

• "C-store home page". Archived from the original on 2012-03-05. Retrieved 2005-09-01.
• Greg Linden (2006-05-16). "Comparison of C-Store and BigTable" (blog). Geeking with Greg.