Guest lecture by Arjen de Vries

Tuesday 17 December 8:30h. in SP-2, prof. Arjen de Vries will give a guest lecture on column-oriented relational database management systems (DBMS). A column-oriented DBMS (or column store) is a DBMS that physically stores tables by column rather than by row. In previous lectures we have been mostly concerned with Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads, with lots of small inserts and lots of queries over parts of the data. Column stores, however, are well-suited for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) workloads which involve complex analytical queries over all data.

Attendance to this lecture is highly recommended.