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title: Column Databases
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## Column Databases
Column oriented databases are designed to efficiently return data for a limited number of columns. It does it by storing all of the values of a column together. A column oriented database will excel at read operations on a limited number of columns, however write operation will be expensive compared to row oriented databases.

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Please visit the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS">Column-oriented DBMS</a> Wikipedia page for more information.