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Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale

Summary: Dremel pioneers interactive SQL on web-scale data by combining disaggregated storage and compute, in situ analysis, and columnar storage for semi-structured data. The paper traces how these principles evolved over a decade to become the foundation of Google BigQuery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12228
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
9.6585115e-05
Overall Rank
2,060 | 85.69%
DOI
10.14778/3415478.3415568

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100 On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results 1991 SIGMOD 0.00050033475
109 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00048217028
132 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00043697853
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040580118
167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039408116
521 Hyder - A Transactional Record Manager for Shared Flash 2011 CIDR 0.0002114053
900 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015466804
909 Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework 2011 VLDB 0.0001540191
914 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.00015370799
1,008 Spanner: Becoming a SQL System 2017 SIGMOD 0.00014663067
1,346 NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files 2012 SIGMOD 0.00012472598
1,470 Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click 2012 VLDB 0.00011827274
1,838 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010353323
1,939 Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube 2019 VLDB 0.00010019433
3,044 Azure Data Lake Store: A Hyperscale Distributed File Service for Big Data Analytics 2017 SIGMOD 7.6624689e-05
3,344 F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale 2018 VLDB 7.1944106e-05
3,764 F1 Lightning: HTAP as a Service 2020 VLDB 6.7762323e-05
4,226 Hyper Dimension Shuffle: Efficient Data Repartition at Petabyte Scale in SCOPE 2019 VLDB 6.3382156e-05
7,554 Storing and Querying Tree-Structured Records in Dremel 2014 VLDB 4.7079131e-05
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