Default column index

For any column that has no index defined, or whenever it is the most effective, query results are produced using the default index. This structure is fastest for projections, but generally is slower than any of the three column index types you define for anything other than a projection. Performance is still faster than most RDBMSs since one column of data is fetched, while other RDBMSs need to fetch all columns which results in more disk I/O operations.