https://largedatabank.com/tags/database-distributed-sql-video/ Recent content in Database Distributed Sql Video on LARGE DATA BANK Hugo en-us Fri, 01 May 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://largedatabank.com/posts/exploring-column-families/ Fri, 01 May 2020 10:00:00 -0400 https://largedatabank.com/posts/exploring-column-families/ <p>In this video, I break down what <a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/column-families.html">Column Families</a> are in <a href="https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach">CockroachDB</a>, why you&rsquo;d want to use them, and how you can explore them in more detail for yourself. <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BqkG-1mKAXw?autoplay=0&controls=1&end=0&loop=0&mute=0&start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video" ></iframe> </div> </p> <p>Column families are a concept that allows you to change how rows are stored in a SQL table, to improve performance and reduce contention. By default, all of the columns of a row are stored in a single <em>database key</em>. With column families, you can ask the database to store the columns in multiple keys!</p>