Patent attributes
A method for providing optimized support for transactional processing and analytical processing with minimal memory footprint may include storing, on a data page in a disk of a database system, a portion of one or more columns of data from a database table. A metadata associated with the data page may be stored on a metadata page in the disk of the database system. The metadata may include one or more byte ranges on the data page at which the portion of the one or more columns of data is stored. The database system may execute one or more queries by accessing, based at least on the metadata associated with the data page, a portion of the data page storing the portion of the one or more columns of data required by the one or more queries. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.
