Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics

Summary: Proposes the Lakehouse: an open-format (Parquet) platform unifying data warehousing and first-class ML/data‑science to address staleness, lock‑in, reliability and TCO. Presents a Parquet-based prototype that matches cloud data warehouses on TPC-DS and discusses research implications. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h6ccc51336ff9cd28
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 0.00012895553
Overall Rank: 950 | 93.62%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Armbrust (Databricks)
2. Ali Ghodsi (Databricks; University of California Berkeley)
3. Reynold Xin (Databricks)
4. Matei Zaharia (Databricks; Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{armbrust_cidr21,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '21},
        title = {{Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Armbrust, Michael and Ghodsi, Ali and Xin, Reynold and Zaharia, Matei},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 56 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,968	LayoutPilot: A Lakehouse Physical Design Advisor	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,243	Quantum Data Management in the NISQ Era	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,269	LogCloud: Fast Search of Compressed Logs on Object Storage	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,383	Ursa: A Lakehouse-Native Data Streaming Engine for Kafka	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,394	GraphAr: An Efficient Storage Scheme for Graph Data in Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,436	Analyzing Near-Network Hardware Acceleration with Co-Processing on DPUs	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055406774
52	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00041219077
459	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017856221
647	Building a Database on S3	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015208434
932	Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions	2020	SIGMOD	0.00013008551
1,380	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010862758
1,695	Bolt-on Causal Consistency	2013	SIGMOD	9.8556267e-05
1,925	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	9.3670488e-05
2,199	Enabling and Optimizing Non-linear Feature Interactions in Factorized Linear Algebra	2019	SIGMOD	8.8750296e-05
3,081	Skipping-oriented Partitioning for Columnar Layouts	2017	VLDB	7.6653727e-05
3,146	White-box Compression: Learning and Exploiting Compact Table Representations	2020	CIDR	7.5963816e-05
3,762	Dimensions Based Data Clustering and Zone Maps	2017	VLDB	7.0421949e-05
6,987	SparkR: Scaling R Programs with Spark	2016	SIGMOD	5.6283496e-05

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