Webinar on Columnar Store for PostgreSQL using cstore_fdw on September 9th

Please join me on September 9th at 10 am Pacific Time for my webinar entitled "Columnar Store for PostgreSQL using cstore_fdw". This webinar will give you a comprehensive overview of cstore_fdw, an open source PostgreSQL extension from Citus Data that lets you store tables in columnar form. During this live webinar, we will discuss how columnar storage differs from row-based storage. We will demonstrate the difference between columnar and row-based storage by storing data in compressed form in a column in contiguous blocks on disk, as opposed to storing each row separately.

You will learn which use-cases are the best fit for cstore_fdw along with performance tuning best practices. We will take a deeper dive into the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) storage format that cstore_fdw uses and discuss key features such as skip-list indexes. We will also look at practical examples of how to make effective use of cstore_fdw, such as using it to reduce the storage size of tables with JSONB columns over 6x. Finally, I will give a live demo of how to set up cstore_fdw tables yourself and demonstrate some of the latest and upcoming features. PostgreSQL 9.5 adds foreign table inheritance, which lets you create tables that are part row-based and part columnar and move data between the different partitions, giving you the best of both worlds.