Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube
Summary: Procella unifies dashboards, embedded metrics, monitoring, and ad-hoc analytics in one SQL engine, replacing workload-specific silos. It serves fresh data at millisecond latency and high QPS while supporting complex queries over trillions of rows, reaching hundreds of billions of queries daily. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Biswapesh Chattopadhyay (Google)
- 2. Priyam Dutta (Google)
- 3. Weiran Liu (Google)
- 4. Ott Tinn (Google)
- 5. Andrew Mccormick (Google)
- 6. Aniket Mokashi (Google)
- 7. Paul Harvey (Google)
- 8. Hector Gonzalez (Google)
- 9. David Lomax (Google)
- 10. Sagar Mittal (Google)
- 11. Roee Ebenstein (Google)
- 12. Nikita Mikhaylin (Google)
- 13. Hung-ching Lee (Google)
- 14. Xiaoyan Zhao (Google)
- 15. Tony Xu (Google)
- 16. Luis Perez (Google)
- 17. Farhad Shahmohammadi (Google)
- 18. Tran Bui (Google)
- 19. Neil McKay (Google)
- 20. Selcuk Aya (Google)
- 21. Vera Lychagina (Google)
- 22. Brett Elliott (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chattopadhyay_vldb19,
title = {{Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube}},
author = {Chattopadhyay, Biswapesh and Dutta, Priyam and Liu, Weiran and Tinn, Ott and Mccormick, Andrew and Mokashi, Aniket and Harvey, Paul and Gonzalez, Hector and Lomax, David and Mittal, Sagar and Ebenstein, Roee and Mikhaylin, Nikita and Lee, Hung-ching and Zhao, Xiaoyan and Xu, Tony and Perez, Luis and Shahmohammadi, Farhad and Bui, Tran and McKay, Neil and Aya, Selcuk and Lychagina, Vera and Elliott, Brett},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '19},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
pages = {2022--2034},
doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352121},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352121},
year = {2019}
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