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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
8.6533171e-05
Overall Rank
2,314 | 84.45%
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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2,928 ALP: Adaptive Lossless floating-Point Compression 2023 SIGMOD 7.8424335e-05
3,808 An Empirical Evaluation of Columnar Storage Formats 2024 VLDB 7.0097354e-05
7,221 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.5828002e-05
7,350 Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning 2025 CIDR 5.5451228e-05
8,552 F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future 2026 SIGMOD 5.316708e-05
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8,791 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Storage Compressibility of Pre-Trained ML Models but Were Afraid to Ask 2024 VLDB 5.276442e-05
9,483 Beyond Compression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Lossless Floating-Point Compression 2025 VLDB 5.1708619e-05
9,536 SAP HANA Cloud: Data Management for Modern Enterprise Applications 2025 SIGMOD 5.1631101e-05
9,684 The HANA Native Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2025 VLDB 5.1423628e-05
9,793 Declarative Memory Services 2026 CIDR 5.1257999e-05
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10,022 Towards Functional Decomposition of Storage Formats 2025 CIDR 5.0941658e-05
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10,226 Active Data Lakes: Regaining Physical Data Independence Without Losing Interoperability 2026 VLDB 5.0571508e-05
10,250 AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets 2025 VLDB 5.051964e-05
10,347 Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass 2026 CIDR 4.9793485e-05
10,471 Kangaroo: Efficient Lossless Floating-Point Compression via Dynamic Reference Selection 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,669 Predictive Translation: High-Performance Buffer Management Without the Trade-Offs 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
10,694 FlatStor: An Efficient Embedded-Index Based Columnar Data Layout for Multimodal Data Workloads 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,794 Storage-Centric Relation Design via High-Quality Approximate Functional Dependencies 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,801 PystachIO: Efficient Distributed GPU Query Processing with PyTorch over Fast Networks & Fast Storage 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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10,857 Interoperable ACID Transactions for Open Table Formats 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,886 Accelerating String-Heavy Queries with LLM Token Tables 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,905 ZipFlow: a Compiler-based Framework to Unleash Compressed Data Movement for Modern GPUs 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
10,945 Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,065 DeXOR: Enabling xor in Decimal Space for Streaming Lossless Compression of Floating-point Data 2026 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
11,191 Nested Parquet Is Flat, Why Not Use It? How To Scan Nested Data With On-the-Fly Key Generation and Joins 2025 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,542 High-Performance Query Processing with NVMe Arrays: Spilling without Killing Performance 2024 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
11,579 Blitzcrank: Fast Semantic Compression for In-memory Online Transaction Processing 2024 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
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15 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00061066921
21 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00056855599
49 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.00043160717
52 The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse 2016 SIGMOD 0.00041219077
61 Integrating Compression and Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems 2006 SIGMOD 0.000392237
148 Gorilla: A Fast, Scalable, In-Memory Time Series Database 2015 VLDB 0.0002900671
163 DB2 with BLU Acceleration: So Much More than Just a Column Store 2013 VLDB 0.0002749118
219 SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units 2009 VLDB 0.00024363532
233 Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses 2015 SIGMOD 0.00023783585
680 Amazon Redshift Re-invented 2022 SIGMOD 0.00014828697
873 BitWeaving: Fast Scans for Main Memory Data Processing 2013 SIGMOD 0.00013338838
906 Data Blocks: Hybrid OLTP and OLAP on Compressed Storage using both Vectorization and Compilation 2016 SIGMOD 0.00013160654
944 Enhancements to SQL Server Column Stores 2013 SIGMOD 0.00012939697
950 Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics 2021 CIDR 0.00012895553
1,135 Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale 2020 VLDB 0.00011891907
1,347 Chimp: Efficient Lossless Floating Point Compression for Time Series Databases 2022 VLDB 0.00010950342
1,459 Row-wise Parallel Predicate Evaluation 2008 VLDB 0.00010585108
1,487 Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010521722
1,723 ByteSlice: Pushing the Envelop of Main Memory Data Processing with a New Storage Layout 2015 SIGMOD 9.7931223e-05
1,766 SQL Server Column Store Indexes 2011 SIGMOD 9.6955121e-05
1,790 POLARIS: The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse 2020 VLDB 9.6272006e-05
2,201 An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression 2017 SIGMOD 8.8726671e-05
2,213 Towards Cost-Optimal Query Processing in the Cloud 2021 VLDB 8.8206114e-05
3,146 White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations 2020 CIDR 7.5963816e-05
3,316 Cloud Analytics Benchmark 2023 VLDB 7.4373161e-05
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