Patent ID: 9619502
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer program product for storing data in a tabular form, the computer program comprising: a machine readable storage device; and computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following: wherein: the plurality of ordered attributes of the first plurality of records has the same attributes and the same order as the plurality of ordered attributes of the second plurality of records; the first plurality of records is stored on the storage medium of the machine readable storage device in a row oriented manner; and the second plurality of records is stored on the storage medium of the machine readable storage device in a column oriented manner; whereby selective use two different orientations for the first and second pluralities of records improves, relative to a single orientation table, a balance between the following design imperatives: speed of stored data access and storage space efficiency.