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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. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h05812847d34ced30
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
8.6492924e-05
Overall Rank
2,317 | 84.43%
DOI
10.1145/3589263

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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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2,929 ALP: Adaptive Lossless floating-Point Compression 2023 SIGMOD 7.838721e-05
3,810 An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats 2024 VLDB 7.0064171e-05
7,223 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.5801574e-05
7,353 Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning 2025 CIDR 5.5424978e-05
8,559 F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future 2026 SIGMOD 5.3141911e-05
8,577 The FastLanes File Format 2025 VLDB 5.3107348e-05
8,790 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Storage Compressibility of Pre-Trained ML Models but Were Afraid to Ask 2024 VLDB 5.2749476e-05
9,494 Beyond Compression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Lossless Floating-Point Compression 2025 VLDB 5.168414e-05
9,544 SAP HANA Cloud: Data Management for Modern Enterprise Applications 2025 SIGMOD 5.160666e-05
9,690 The HANA Native Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2025 VLDB 5.1399285e-05
9,799 Declarative Memory Services 2026 CIDR 5.1233734e-05
9,870 GPU Acceleration of SQL Analytics on Compressed Data 2026 VLDB 5.115241e-05
10,027 Towards Functional Decomposition of Storage Formats 2025 CIDR 5.0917543e-05
10,085 LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics 2025 VLDB 5.0806786e-05
10,232 Active Data Lakes: Regaining Physical Data Independence Without Losing Interoperability 2026 VLDB 5.0547568e-05
10,256 AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets 2025 VLDB 5.0495724e-05
10,359 Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass 2026 CIDR 4.9769913e-05
10,482 Kangaroo: Efficient Lossless Floating-Point Compression via Dynamic Reference Selection 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,680 Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,704 FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,804 Storage-Centric Relation Design via High-Quality Approximate Functional Dependencies 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,811 PystachIO: Efficient Distributed GPU Query Processing with PyTorch over Fast Networks & Fast Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,817 dpKernels: Harvesting DPU Compute Resources for Data-path Efficiency in Cloud Data Processing 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,866 Interoperable ACID Transactions for Open Table Formats 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,895 Accelerating String-Heavy Queries with LLM Token Tables 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,914 ZipFlow: a Compiler-based Framework to Unleash Compressed Data Movement for Modern GPUs 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
10,954 Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,074 DeXOR: Enabling xor in Decimal Space for Streaming Lossless Compression of Floating-point Data 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,200 Nested Parquet Is Flat, Why Not Use It? How To Scan Nested Data With On-the-Fly Key Generation and Joins 2025 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,548 High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance 2024 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
11,585 Blitzcrank: Fast Semantic Compression for In-memory Online Transaction Processing 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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15 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00061067652
21 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00056835296
49 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.0004314366
52 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00041210636
61 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.00039236924
148 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.00029001141
163 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.00027480091
219 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00024367137
233 Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023774958
681 Amazon Redshift Re-invented 2022 SIGMOD 0.0001482366
873 BitWeaving: Fast Scans for Main Memory Data Processing 2013 SIGMOD 0.00013334067
907 Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013157412
944 Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012934104
950 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012889569
1,135 Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale 2020 VLDB 0.00011886308
1,347 Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases 2022 VLDB 0.00010945231
1,458 Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation 2008 VLDB 0.00010583148
1,487 Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010516813
1,718 ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout 2015 SIGMOD 9.7983307e-05
1,765 SQL Server Column Store Indexes 2011 SIGMOD 9.6934008e-05
1,790 POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse 2020 VLDB 9.6227952e-05
2,011 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 9.1924806e-05
2,213 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.817248e-05
3,147 White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations 2020 CIDR 7.5927972e-05
3,311 Cloud Analytics Benchmark 2023 VLDB 7.4364696e-05
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