Personal information indexing for columnar data storage format

摘要

Techniques are described herein for indexing personal information in columnar data storage format based files. In an embodiment, row groups of rows that comprise a plurality of columns are stored in a set of files. Each column of a row group is stored in a chunk of column pages in the set of files. A regular expression index that indexes a particular column in the set of files is stored for each row group. The regular expression index identifies column pages in the chunk of the particular column that include a particular column value that satisfies a regular expression specified in a query. The regular expression specified in the query in evaluated against the particular column using the regular expression index.