Cubrick: Indexing Millions of Records per Second for Interactive Analytics

Summary: Cubrick is a distributed in-memory MDDBMS for interactive analytics on TB-scale data, delivering sub-second OLAP over a strict MD model. It range-partitions data across dims into sparse bricks for fast ingestion and indexed access on a distributed engine. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h639e1288cedd2431
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.3607982e-05
Overall Rank: 8,287 | 44.31%
DOI: 10.14778/3007263.3007274
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Pedro Pedreira (Meta)
2. Chris Croswhite (Meta)
3. Luis Bona (Federal University of Parana)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pedreira_vldb16,
        title = {{Cubrick: Indexing Millions of Records per Second for Interactive Analytics}},
        author = {Pedreira, Pedro and Croswhite, Chris and Bona, Luis},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '16},
        volume = {9},
        number = {13},
        pages = {1305--1316},
        doi = {10.14778/3007263.3007274},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3007263.3007274},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,835	Presto: A Decade of SQL Analytics at Meta	2023	SIGMOD	6.9899256e-05
6,278	Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse	2023	CIDR	5.8243198e-05
7,000	Statisticum: Data Statistics Management in SAP HANA	2017	VLDB	5.6226404e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0019923528
12	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.0006897844
229	A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	VLDB	0.00023915204
252	Database Cracking	2007	CIDR	0.00023101361
331	Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?	2008	SIGMOD	0.0002076806
1,210	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.0001152237
1,381	Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook	2013	VLDB	0.00010856731
2,257	Dwarf: Shrinking the PetaCube	2002	SIGMOD	8.7397925e-05

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