Tanium Reveal: A Federated Search Engine for Querying Unstructured File Data on Large Enterprise Networks

Summary: Tanium Reveal: federated search of unstructured data across billions of files on endpoints, with per-endpoint indexes and a global control plane. Contributions: asynchronous endpoint indexing, self-organizing fault-tolerant linear-chain communication, and RBAC with cryptographic hashing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12703
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,730 | 19.53%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476386

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Authors

1. Josh Stoddard (Tanium Inc.)
2. Adam Mustafa (Tanium Inc.)
3. Naveen Goela (Tanium Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stoddard_vldb21,
        title = {{Tanium Reveal: A Federated Search Engine for Querying Unstructured File Data on Large Enterprise Networks}},
        author = {Stoddard, Josh and Mustafa, Adam and Goela, Naveen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3096--3109},
        doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476386},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476386},
        year = {2021}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
182	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00026367971
1,213	MyRocks: LSM-Tree Database Storage Engine Serving Facebook's Social Graph	2020	VLDB	0.00011646797
2,308	Hashed Samples: Selectivity Estimators For Set Similarity Selection Queries	2008	VLDB	8.7738996e-05
6,045	Helios: Hyperscale Indexing for the Cloud & Edge	2020	VLDB	5.9957544e-05
6,552	Evaluation Strategies for Top-k Queries over Memory-Resident Inverted Indexes	2011	VLDB	5.8425759e-05

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