Background reading?

[Andy Dwelly]

This is a fascinating area, but somewhat obscure. Are there any papers or books you could recommend for someone trying to get a broad understanding of column stores in general and Kelindar in particular?

[Roman Atachiants]

I found a couple of papers useful while implementing this:

• Decomposition Storage Model, 1985, Copeland and Khoshafian
• The Design and Implementation of Modern Column-Oriented Database Systems, 2013, D. Abadi et al

For the design of this specific library, I suggest you read the source code as I don't have anything else available.