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rowstores

rowstores is the plural of rowstore.

Meaning of rowstore

Noun

rowstore (plural rowstores)

  1. (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.
    • This is in contrast to most common database systems, “rowstores", where values of different attributes from the same tuple are stored consecutively.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

Questions about rowstores

What is rowstores the plural of?
Rowstores is the plural of rowstore.

Words near rowstores in the dictionary

  1. rowsing
  2. Rowsley
  3. Rowson
  4. Rowsons
  5. rowstore
  6. rowstores
  7. Rowswell
  8. rowt
  9. rowted
  10. rowtee
  11. rowtees

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