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Converting Records to Tuples

A Record is an array of bytes (byte[])
  • representing the data values from a typed Tuple
  • stored on disk (persistent) or in a memory buffer
A Tuple is a collection of named,typed values  (cf. C struct)
  • to manipulate the values, need an "interpretable" structure
  • stored in working memory, and temporary

[Diagram:Pics/storage/rec-to-tuple.png]