Photon: A High-Performance Query Engine for the Lakehouse
Summary: Photon: a native vectorized query engine in Databricks Runtime delivering state-of-the-art query latency and industry-leading price/performance. Runs in situ over Parquet and Delta on object stores (S3/ADLS/GCS) and exposes SQL + Spark DataFrame APIs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 3,254 | Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes | 2022 | VLDB | 7.3161051e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,377 | Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics | 2021 | CIDR | 0.00012296941 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 544 | Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00020521965 |
| 6,402 | BigLake: BigQuery’s Evolution toward a Multi-Cloud Lakehouse | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.079818e-05 |
| 5,441 | Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.5028093e-05 |
| 10,787 | AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 9,857 | Towards Unifying Query Interpretation and Compilation | 2023 | CIDR | 4.269353e-05 |
| 10,767 | The HANA Native Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 7,907 | Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses | 2024 | VLDB | 4.6205839e-05 |
| 7,059 | Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale | 2024 | VLDB | 4.8477825e-05 |
| 746 | Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00017326979 |
| 2,473 | Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 8.7237281e-05 |