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JSON In Clustered Columnstore Indexes

Published 2017-02-03 by Kevin Feasel

Jovan Popovic gives a use case for JSON data being part of a clustered columnstore index:

This is equivalent to collections that you might find in classic NoSQL database because they store each JSON document as a single entity and optionally create indexes on these documents. The only difference is CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE index on this table that provides the following benefits:

  1. Data compression – CCI uses various techniques to analyze your data and choose optimal compression algorithms to compress data.

  2. Batch mode analytic – queries executed on CCI process rows in the batches from 100 to 900 rows, which might be much faster than row-mode execution.

I think it’s worth reading this in conjunction with Niko Neugebauer’s comments regarding strings in columnstore.

Published in Columnstore and JSON