column-oriented DBMS

Database management system that stores data tables by column rather than by row

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Also known as column-oriented database · columnar database management system

Subclass of: database management system

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Data orientation is the representation of tabular data in a linear memory model such as in-disk or in-memory. The two most common representations are column-oriented and row-oriented.

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