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Basic column mapping

  • Jan 18, 2016 2:57 PM UTC
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SRA1
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Hi This is a basic question .

When the columns in Vertica are stored separated with Encoding and compression.

How the engine works for a select query requesting multiple columns from a table.

How the mapping happens?

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eli_revach
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  • Jan 19, 2016 5:30 PM UTC

Hi ,
Columnar databases have several technics for accessing data , one of them is Late Materialization , i recomend you to read my blog to get some general understanding see attach :
http://community.hpe.com/t5/Business-Service-Management/The-backend-database-and-HP-Operations-Analytics/ba-p/6307851#.Vp5xVPkrJD8

 

i hope you will find it useful

Thanks