Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale
Summary: A decade-long retrospective on Dremel’s pioneering architecture for interactive SQL over web-scale, semistructured data: disaggregated compute/storage, in-situ processing, and columnar layouts. Traces their evolution into the foundation of BigQuery and cloud analytics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Sergey Melnik (Google)
- 2. Andrey Gubarev (Google)
- 3. Jing Jing Long (Google)
- 4. Geoffrey Romer (Google)
- 5. Shiva Shivakumar (Google)
- 6. Matt Tolton (Google)
- 7. Theo Vassilakis (Google)
- 8. Hossein Ahmadi (Google)
- 9. Dan Delorey (Google)
- 10. Slava Min (Google)
- 11. Mosha Pasumansky (Google)
- 12. Jeff Shute (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@article{melnik_vldb20,
title = {{Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale}},
author = {Melnik, Sergey and Gubarev, Andrey and Long, Jing Jing and Romer, Geoffrey and Shivakumar, Shiva and Tolton, Matt and Vassilakis, Theo and Ahmadi, Hossein and Delorey, Dan and Min, Slava and Pasumansky, Mosha and Shute, Jeff},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '20},
volume = {13},
number = {12},
pages = {3461--3472},
doi = {10.14778/3415478.3415568},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3415478.3415568},
year = {2020}
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