<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Core concepts on Portraits</title><link>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/</link><description>Recent content in Core concepts on Portraits</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Row storage and columnar storage</title><link>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/columnar-storage/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/columnar-storage/</guid><description>Understand row and column storage through access patterns, compression, scans, and write cost.</description></item><item><title>What is shuffle?</title><link>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/shuffle/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/shuffle/</guid><description>Why distributed systems redistribute data, and where shuffle cost comes from.</description></item><item><title>What is vectorized execution?</title><link>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/vectorized-execution/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jiangxt2.github.io/en/concepts/vectorized-execution/</guid><description>Understand vectorized execution as batch processing instead of row-at-a-time work, especially in OLAP systems.</description></item></channel></rss>