Understanding Record Shredding: Storing Nested Data in Columns

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Joe Kearney. "Understanding Record Shredding: Storing Nested Data in Columns." joekearney.co.uk, December 2016. Archived at perma.cc/ZD5N-AX5D

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Understanding Record Shredding – Joe Kearney

Record shredding allows nested data structures to be considered in a sort-of-tabular way, and stored in a columnar data store. This post describes the intuition behind how this can be done preserving message structure, from Dremel and Parquet.

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