[rockeetterark]

Thanks. These assertions are here to give a basic background and overview of databases performance in general. The real game changer with Terark is our novel compression algorithm. It's more space efficient, that's one thing, but above all else we can search directly into the compressed data without decompressing it. That's the real breakthrough.

We do that by using a data structure called Succinct Nested Trie, and we've introduced concepts such as CO-Index (Compressed Ordered Index) and PA-Zip (Point Accessible Zip).

We were at first a compression company, and turned to storage engines and database as a domain of application for our algos, hence the analogy with Pied Piper :)

[polskibus]

How does your technique compare to a typical column store?