How it works
Why does it behave this way?
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Data at rest and the one ratio
What is different about data at rest, and which one ratio explains most of the cost?
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Layout models
Should a row, a column or a group of rows be the unit that sits together?
3 pages - 3
Mutation strategies
What physically happens when a value changes, and who pays: in place, copy-on-write or merge-on-read?
3 pages - 4
Physical clustering
How do we arrange rows so that whole units can be skipped without reading them?
4 pages - 5
Access and media
What does one touch of storage cost, and why does that set the size of every unit?
2 pages - 6
What physical organization forbids
What can no storage arrangement do, and what does the whole mechanism reduce to?