Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click
Venue
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 5, No. 11, vol. 5 (2012), pp. 1436-1446
Publication Year
2012
Authors
Alexander Hall, Olaf Bachmann, Robert Buessow
BibTeX
Abstract
In this paper we present the column-oriented datastore developed as one of the central components of PowerDrill. It combines the advantages of columnar data layout with other known techniques (such as using composite range partitions) and extensive algorithmic engineering on key data structures. The main goal of the latter being to reduce the main memory footprint and to increase the efficiency in processing typical user queries. In this combination we achieve large speed-ups. These enable a highly interactive Web UI where it is common that a single mouse click leads to processing a trillion values in the underlying dataset.
