Dremel (software)

Last updated December 23, 2025

Dremel is a distributed system developed at Google for interactively querying large datasets.

Dremel is the query engine used in Google's BigQuery service.^[1]

Dremel is the inspiration for Apache Drill,^[2] Apache Impala,^[3] and Dremio,^[4] an Apache licensed platform that includes a distributed SQL execution engine.

In 2020, Dremel won the Test of Time award^[5] at the VLDB 2020 conference, recognizing the innovations it pioneered.^[6]

References

↑ "BigQuery under the hood" . Retrieved 2023-05-25.
↑ "Apache Drill - Architecture Introduction" . Retrieved 2017-10-08.
↑ "Cloudera Impala: Real-Time Queries in Apache Hadoop, For Real" . Retrieved 2017-10-08.
↑ "Recognizing A New Tier" . Retrieved 2018-05-01.
↑ "VLDB Test of Time Award". www.vldb.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
↑ "VLDB 2022 - Program Schedule - Keynote Speakers". vldb.org. Retrieved 2023-10-02.

Melnik, Sergey; Gubarev, Andrey; Long, Jing Jing; Romer, Geoffrey; Shivakumar, Shiva; Tolton, Matt; Vassilakis, Theo (2010). "Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets". Proc. of the 36th Int'l Conf on Very Large Data Bases: 330–339.

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[1] "BigQuery under the hood" . Retrieved 2023-05-25.

[2] "Apache Drill - Architecture Introduction" . Retrieved 2017-10-08.

[3] "Cloudera Impala: Real-Time Queries in Apache Hadoop, For Real" . Retrieved 2017-10-08.

[4] "Recognizing A New Tier" . Retrieved 2018-05-01.

[5] "VLDB Test of Time Award". www.vldb.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.

[6] "VLDB 2022 - Program Schedule - Keynote Speakers". vldb.org. Retrieved 2023-10-02.

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