rowstore

English

Etymology

From row +‎ store.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊˌstɔ(ɹ)/

Noun

rowstore (plural rowstores)

  1. (databases, data management) A database storage method that organizes data by rows, storing all fields of a record together. This design is best for transactional workloads where entire records are frequently accessed or modified.
    • 2013 September 20, Milko Marinov, Vladimir Tochev, EXTENSION OF HYPERTABLE QUERY LANGUAGE WITH AGGREGATE OPERATIONS, in PROCEEDINGS of the International Conference InfoTech-2013, Bulgaria, page 55:
      This is in contrast to most common database systems, “rowstores", where values of different attributes from the same tuple are stored consecutively.
    • 2019 September 24, “Announcing MemSQL Helios: The World’s First SingleStore, System of Record Cloud Database”, in Regional Business News (article), sourced from Business Wire (English), bizwire.bw31991875:
      Now available in Beta for invited users, MemSQL 7.0 SingleStore functionality differentiates MemSQL from other data solutions by reducing the pain of choosing between a rowstore or a columnstore for workloads, eliminating some of the hard tradeoffs and added complexity of typical data management.

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