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BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes
Summary: BtrBlocks is an open columnar format optimized for data lakes on object stores, addressing remote-scan inefficiencies in Parquet-based pipelines. Lightweight encodings yield fast decompression and strong compression, lowering CPU-bound query latency for cloud analytics.
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Paper ID
6683
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
8.1205155e-05
Overall Rank
2,788 | 80.88%
DOI
10.1145/3589263
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kuschewski_sigmod23,
title = {{BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes}},
author = {Kuschewski, Maximilian and Sauerwein, David and Alhomssi, Adnan and Leis, Viktor},
series = {{SIGMOD} '23},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3589263},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589263},
year = {2023}
}
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