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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| 3,260 | Query Processing on Tensor Computation Runtimes | 2022 | VLDB | 7.3091312e-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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| 1,356 | Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics | 2021 | CIDR | 0.00012409986 |
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| 542 | Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00020522627 |
| 6,397 | BigLake: BigQuery’s Evolution toward a Multi-Cloud Lakehouse | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.0749432e-05 |
| 5,446 | Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.4986799e-05 |
| 10,793 | AnalyticDB-PG: A Cloud-native High-performance Data Warehouse in Alibaba Cloud | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 9,856 | Towards Unifying Query Interpretation and Compilation | 2023 | CIDR | 4.2652623e-05 |
| 10,773 | The HANA Native Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 7,907 | Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses | 2024 | VLDB | 4.6161532e-05 |
| 6,683 | Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale | 2024 | VLDB | 4.9593505e-05 |
| 739 | Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00017365933 |
| 2,472 | Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 8.7156826e-05 |