Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets paper published

Name: Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets paper published
Start: 2010-09-01
Location: N/A (Google Internal Research, later publicly available)

Google publishes a seminal paper detailing the architecture and performance of Dremel, its internal massively parallel query system that formed the technological backbone of BigQuery.

Significance

This paper unveiled the groundbreaking columnar storage and query execution strategies that enabled Dremel's (and thus BigQuery's) unprecedented speed and scale, sparking widespread industry interest in distributed query processing.

Key facts

Date: 2010-09-01
Type: publication
Location: N/A (Google Internal Research, later publicly available)