[HN Gopher] Ben Nadel: I Wish My Relational Database Tables Were...
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       Ben Nadel: I Wish My Relational Database Tables Were Narrower
        
       Author : rmason
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2021-09-03 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Quite a few RDBMS today are "columnar" and do exactly what he
       | wants internally.
        
         | srcreigh wrote:
         | Is it? He doesn't mention aggregate queries, but seems to want
         | to load a single row without unnecessary columns. Columnar DBs
         | would spread a row out across the disk which would probably be
         | less efficient.
        
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