C-Store is a
database management system
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(DBMS) based on a
column-oriented DBMS developed by a team at
Brown University
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,
Brandeis University
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,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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and the
University of Massachusetts Boston
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including
Michael Stonebraker,
Stanley Zdonik, and
Samuel Madden. The last release of the original code was in 2006;
Vertica a commercial fork, lives on.
C-Store differs from most traditional
relational database management system
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A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is a type of database management system that stores data in a structured for ...
(RDBMS) designs in many ways, primarily in that it stores data by column and not by row, optimizing the database for reading of data rather than writing.
C-Store is licensed under the
BSD license
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. Stonebraker and his colleagues have formed
Vertica, a company to commercialize C-Store.
See also
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H-Store
Bibliography
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External links
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Discontinued software