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ABSTRACT
While it is generally accepted that data warehouses and
OLAP workloads are excellent applications for column-stores,
this paper speculates that column-stores may well be suited
for additional applications. In particular we observe that
column-stores do not see a performance degradation when
storing extremely wide tables, and column-stores handle sparse
data very well. These two properties lead us to conjecture
that column-stores may be good storage layers for Semantic
Web data, XML data, and data with GEM-style schemas.