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Storage: Improve and reorganize "column store" section once more
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This storage layout improves the performance of sorting, grouping, and aggregations,
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by keeping field data for one column packed at one place rather than scattered across documents.
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The column store is enabled by default in CrateDB and can optionally be disabled
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on a per-field level. It does not support container or geographic data types.
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For all supported value types, field values are indexed and automatically stored
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in the column-based store.
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in the column-based store. It does not support container or geographic data types.
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The column store is enabled by default in CrateDB and can optionally be disabled
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on a per-field level. The purpose of disabling is to reduce storage requirements
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and achieve better write performance, when the columnar store is not needed for
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those columns.
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## Storage process
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