A table in a column oriented database system has one key for each column.
If keys on each row/record are actually unique, then you don't have a
table, you have a collection of unrelated rows (though, in practice,
you might synthesize something that behaves like a table by repeating
the same keys i
A column oriented database system or table such as in jd has each field stored
as a list, and independently of each other.
A common conceptualization of a database table is a 2d structure with fields
and records. Keys on a table (or dictionary) are unique to each record/row
A dictionary is just
This might be better on the chat forum, but:
(1) "table" -- we've got lots of existing uses of that term. For
example: https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/samp07.htm
Specifying a table as "just a dictionary with ..." could conflict
with those uses (existing tables have rank and shape. But
Here are the goals I have for a dictionary class.
A table is just a dictionary with (potentially multiple) key(s) and multiple
values. A dictionary is a table with just one key and 1 value.
Underlying storage should be at the most performant data type: If all keys or
value (columns) are of the
