In this lecture, we will discuss column-oriented databases, which is a different way of building a relational database that is optimized for large scale read intensive operations rather than transaction processing. In preparation, read:

• Mike Stonebraker, Daniel Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Sam Madden, Elizabeth O'Neil, Pat O'Neil, Alex Rasin, Nga Tran and Stan Zdonik. "C-Store: A Column Oriented DBMS". VLDB, pages 553-564, 2005. [PDF]