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Napa: Powering Scalable Data Warehousing with Robust Query Performance at Google

Summary: Napa is Google's analytical data-management backend delivering scalable, sub-second query performance across planet-scale ingests. It achieves robust, availability-aware query processing through aggressive cross-data-center maintenance of materialized views, with configurable freshness, consistency guarantees, and cost/latency tradeoffs for diverse clients. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12506
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
6.0104466e-05
Overall Rank
4,670 | 67.52%
DOI
10.14778/3476311.3476377

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1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0040449103
109 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00048186983
156 Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases 2017 SIGMOD 0.00040504295
167 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00039180521
408 Database Cracking 2007 CIDR 0.00023953844
426 Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023594359
569 Optimizing Space Amplification in RocksDB 2017 CIDR 0.00019924098
906 F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales 2013 VLDB 0.00015448884
913 Tenzing A SQL Implementation On The MapReduce Framework 2011 VLDB 0.00015408131
1,814 Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing 2014 VLDB 0.00010458107
1,943 Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube 2019 VLDB 0.00010012569
3,092 Asynchronous View Maintenance for VLSD Databases 2009 SIGMOD 7.5800633e-05
3,355 F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale 2018 VLDB 7.1829142e-05
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