Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets Paper Published

Google publishes a research paper detailing Dremel, its internal system for interactive analysis of web-scale datasets. This paper unveiled the core technology that would power BigQuery.

Significance

This publication provided the first public glimpse into Google's groundbreaking columnar storage and massively parallel execution engine, laying the conceptual foundation for serverless big data analytics and inspiring further research and development in the field.

Key facts

Date
2010-09-01
Type
invention
Location
VLDB Journal, Singapore (publication event)