What is the structure of columnar storage? Is data stored in blocks by columns?

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Original topic: 列存的结构是怎样的?是按列将数据存储到数据块吗?

| username: alfred

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Please provide the version information of each component, such as cdc/tikv, which can be obtained by executing cdc version/tikv-server --version.

| username: yilong | Original post link

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