(It’s also probably a bad idea to take on two big writing/research projects at the same time; I’m in the middle of a paper reading program into data cubes vs columnar databases, which is super interesting and fun).
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The Dremel paper: ai.google/research/pubs/
Stonebraker’s Case for Shared Nothing paper: semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Case
This proposal for data cube as an SQL operator: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/492099
These helped me understand the current shift from cubes to MPP columnar data warehouses.
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If you're interested in this stuff, Kleppmann's book "designing data intensive applications" cover these stuff in great depth and breadth!
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