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Columnar database

columnar database is a database management system (DBMS) that stores data in columns instead of rows. The goal of a columnar database is to efficiently write and read data, so as to speed up the time it takes to return a query. The columnar storage engine also eliminates the performance penalty for having hundreds of sparse columns.

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