ColumnStore Storage Engine

ColumnStore is a MariaDB Enterprise Server storage engine for columnar analytics: ACID-compliant and indexless, with compression, lockless reads, online schema changes, and HA support.

Overview

MariaDB ColumnStore integrates with MariaDB Enterprise Server using the ColumnStore storage engine plugin. The ColumnStore storage engine plugin enables MariaDB Enterprise Server to interact with ColumnStore tables.

For deployment instructions and available documentation, see "MariaDB ColumnStore."

The ColumnStore storage engine has the following features:

Feature	Detail	Resources
Storage Engine	ColumnStore
Availability	ES, CS	MariaDB Enterprise Server
Workload Optimization	OLAP and Hybrid	OLAP Workloads Hybrid Workloads
Table Orientation	Columnar	Columnar Storage Engine
ACID-compliant	Yes
Indexes	Unnecessary	Extent Elimination
Compression	Yes	Compression
High Availability (HA)	Yes	High Availability and Failover
Main Memory Caching	Yes
Transaction Logging	Yes	Version Buffer
Garbage Collection	Yes	ersion Buffer
Online Schema changes	Yes	Online Schema Changes
Non-locking Reads	Yes	Lockless Reads

Examples

Creating a ColumnStore Table

To create a ColumnStore table, use the CREATE TABLE statement with the ENGINE=ColumnStore option:

CREATE DATABASE columnstore_db;

CREATE TABLE columnstore_db.analytics_test (
   id INT,
   str VARCHAR(50)
) ENGINE = ColumnStore;

Multi-Node Configuration

To deploy a multi-node Enterprise ColumnStore deployment, a configuration similar to below is required:

[mariadb]
log_error                              = mariadbd.err
character_set_server                   = utf8
collation_server                       = utf8_general_ci
log_bin                                = mariadb-bin
log_bin_index                          = mariadb-bin.index
relay_log                              = mariadb-relay
relay_log_index                        = mariadb-relay.index
log_slave_updates                      = ON
gtid_strict_mode                       = ON

# This must be unique on each cluster node
server_id                              = 1

Configure the Mandatory Utility User Account

To configure the mandatory utility user account, use the mcsSetConfig command:

sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Host 127.0.0.1
sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Port 3306
sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport User cross_engine
sudo mcsSetConfig CrossEngineSupport Password cross_engine_passwd

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