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Re: Columnar databases



Kristoffer Sjögren wrote:
Hi

I'm doing some experiments with LMDB trying to emulate a columnar
storage database using roaring bitmaps and other tricks.

The initial results are promising, but I ask myself, is a row based
storage like LMDB appropriate for implementing a columnar database or
are there better, more efficient ways/formats?

What makes you think LMDB is either row- or column-based? It has no concept of either, that's purely an abstraction created by higher level code.

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