{"id":136,"date":"2020-12-05T21:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2020-12-05T21:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T21:38:26","slug":"thoughts-on-sql-server-columnstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/thoughts-on-sql-server-columnstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on SQL Server Columnstore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are your thoughts on using CStore under SSAS MD ROLAP for large fact tables\/dimensions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever do any benchmarks on a DW using CStore (relational tables) vs an SSAS MD Molap cube?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your thoughts on CStore vs Tabular\/PowerBi\/AzureAS xVelocity engine?<br>currently CStore has no number of rows, CPU or memory limitations like xVelocty engine does<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since CStore rowgroups can get fragmented due to deletes\/updates<br>what is your recommended maintenance plan? Rebuild or Reload?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do CStore indexes handle frequent updates compared to Rowstore and Statistics?<br>Cstore doesnt use statistics but meta data and delta stores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you use Cstore on In-Memory Hekaton databases or whats the point? (Diminishing returns, non-compatible tech)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your thoughts on CStore in PDW\/APS vs Hadoop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CStore issues: performance loss due to decompression<br>AKA, the time to first row slower than rowstore on large queries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Done any Benchmarks on Rowstore Batch Mode vs Columnstore Batch Mode?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever Used NCCS on OLTP tables with &lt;1M rows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Segment elimination: does it work for columns not next to each other?<br>remember all this data is in one physical MDF file<br>only when you do NCCs so that each column is addressed separately?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benchmark:<br>Columnstore on OLTP\/Relational tables<br>SSAS MD Molap<br>SSAS Tabular on-prem<br>Azure Analysis Services<br>Power BI Premium<br>Azure Synapse<br>Azure Data Warehouse<br>Hadoop\/Databricks\/Spark<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Problem: coming up with a Query and dataset to compare all these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your thoughts on using CStore under SSAS MD ROLAP for large fact tables\/dimensions? Ever do any benchmarks on a DW using CStore (relational tables) vs an SSAS MD Molap cube? What are your thoughts on CStore vs Tabular\/PowerBi\/AzureAS xVelocity engine?currently CStore has no number of rows, CPU or memory limitations like xVelocty engine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/05\/thoughts-on-sql-server-columnstore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts on SQL Server Columnstore&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insyncva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}