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I guess column-oriented databases are also conceptually similar, though structure of arrays is certainly a closer analog. Back in the days of planar graphics,

I guess column-oriented databases are also conceptually similar, though structure of arrays is certainly a closer analog. Back in the days of planar graphics, usually cache didn't matter because there wasn't one. The difference between CPU and memory speeds was not so lopsided as it is today. Or you could say, memory was fast enough because CPUs were very slow.

nicoburns 8y ago
> I guess column-oriented databases are also conceptually similar, though structure of arrays is certainly a closer analog. Isn't a column oriented database pretty much just an SoA on disk. And a row oriented database is pretty an AoS on disk. modulo some complexity around indexes?