For anyone looking for info about column oriented DBs, I can recommend [0] as a great place to start. It covers the basic optimizations and compares some older

For anyone looking for info about column oriented DBs, I can recommend [0] as a great place to start. It covers the basic optimizations and compares some older solutions at a fairly high level. [0]http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf