Dremel is a distributed system developed at Google for interactively querying large datasets.
Dremel is the query engine used in Google's
BigQuery
BigQuery is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analysis over petabytes of data. It is a ''Platform as a Service'' ( PaaS) that supports querying using ANSI SQL. It also has built-in machine learning capabilities. B ...
service.
Dremel is the inspiration for
Apache Drill
Apache Drill is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets. Built chiefly by contributions from developers from MapR, Drill is inspired by Google's D ...
,
Apache Impala
Apache Impala is an open source massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL query engine for data stored in a computer cluster running Apache Hadoop. Impala has been described as the open-source equivalent of Google F1, which inspired its developmen ...
, and
Dremio, an Apache licensed platform that includes a distributed SQL execution engine.
In 2020, Dremel won the Test of Time award
at the
VLDB 2020 conference recognizing the innovations it pioneered.
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Google software
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