About MariaDB ColumnStore

MariaDB ColumnStore is a columnar storage engine that utilizes a massively parallel distributed data architecture. It's a columnar storage system built by porting InfiniDB 4.6.7 to MariaDB and released under the GPL license.

MariaDB 10.5.4 is available as a storage engine for MariaDB Server. Before then, it is available as a separate download.

Release notes and other documentation for ColumnStore is also available in the Enterprise docs section of the MariaDB website. For example:

• ColumnStore 23.10 Release Notes

• ColumnStore 23.02 Release Notes

• ColumnStore 22.08 Release Notes

• ColumnStore 6 Release Notes

• ColumnStore 5.6 Release Notes

• Deployment Instructions

It is designed for big data scaling to process petabytes of data, linear scalability, and exceptional performance with real-time response to analytical queries. It leverages the I/O benefits of columnar storage, compression, just-in-time projection, and horizontal and vertical partitioning to deliver tremendous performance when analyzing large data sets.

Links:

• MariaDB Columnstore Blogs.

• A Google Group exists for MariaDB ColumnStore that can be used to discuss ideas and issues and communicate with the community: Send email to [e-mail] or use the forum interface

• Bugs can be reported in MariaDB Jira: jira.mariadb.org (see Reporting Bugs). Please file bugs under the MCOL project and include the output from the support utility if possible.

MariaDB ColumnStore is released under the GPL license.

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