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The Merge Process

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Using a differential buffer as an additional data structure to improve write performance requires to periodically combine this data with the compressed main partition. This process is called “merge”.

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Plattner, H. (2014). The Merge Process. In: A Course in In-Memory Data Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55270-0_27

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