Speaker

Marcus Bell

Distinguished Engineer · Quanta Data

Query EnginesOpen Formats

Marcus is a distinguished engineer at Quanta Data and an authority on vectorized query execution, columnar storage, and the design of modern OLAP engines.

Talks

Analytics

Vectorized Query Engines from First Principles

A ground-up tour of columnar execution, SIMD, and the design tradeoffs behind modern OLAP engines.

Boston

Jul 17, 2023 · 12:30 PM

Keynote

The Warehouse Is the New Operating System

From dashboards to applications: how the cloud warehouse became a programmable platform.

Las Vegas

Jul 20, 2021 · 10:30 AM

Keynote

The Road to the Lakehouse

A look back at how warehouses and lakes converged, and why open formats won the decade.

Virtual

Jul 15, 2020 · 1:00 PM

Published papers

Adaptive Partitioning for Petabyte-Scale Lakehouses

A. Okafor, M. Bell, J. Rivera

Storage · 2025 · 23 citations

Contextual Embedding Caching for Low-Latency RAG Inference

A. Patel, M. Bell

AI Systems · 2025 · 12 citations

Tiered Storage Compaction Strategies for Time-Series Databases

U. Johansson, M. Bell

Data Engineering · 2025 · 13 citations

Vectorized Execution Beyond Columnar Storage

M. Bell, S. Volkov

Query Engines · 2023 · 97 citations

Confidential Query Processing Over Encrypted Data Lakes

P. Adeyemi, M. Bell

Security · 2023 · 58 citations

Programmable Warehouses: Applications on Cloud OLAP

M. Bell, E. Larsen

Analytics · 2020 · 198 citations

Benchmarking Cloud-Native OLAP Engines on TPC-DS Derived Workloads

M. Bell, C. Williams

Analytics · 2020 · 97 citations

Elastic Autoscaling for Bursty Analytical Workloads

E. Larsen, M. Bell

Cloud · 2018 · 256 citations

Foundations of the Modern Cloud Data Warehouse

M. Bell, A. Okafor, V. Cruz

Analytics · 2017 · 348 citations