The Composable Data Management System Manifesto
Summary: Argues monolithic, siloed data systems hinder reuse and innovation; advocates decomposing systems into modular, reusable components to standardize APIs and semantics. Presents a vision surveying emerging OSS building blocks, design patterns, and open research questions to enable composable stacks. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Pedro Pedreira (Meta)
- 2. Orri Erling (Meta)
- 3. Konstantinos Karanasos (Meta)
- 4. Scott Schneider (Meta)
- 5. Wes McKinney (Voltron Data)
- 6. Satya R Valluri (Databricks)
- 7. Mohamed Zait (Databricks)
- 8. Jacques Nadeau (Sundeck)
BibTeX Citation
@article{pedreira_vldb23,
title = {{The Composable Data Management System Manifesto}},
author = {Pedreira, Pedro and Erling, Orri and Karanasos, Konstantinos and Schneider, Scott and McKinney, Wes and Valluri, Satya R and Zait, Mohamed and Nadeau, Jacques},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {10},
pages = {2679--2685},
doi = {10.14778/3603581.3603604},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603604},
year = {2023}
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71 | DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00037720227 |
| 379 | Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00019514689 |
| 932 | Starling: A Scalable Query Engine on Cloud Functions | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00013008551 |
| 1,276 | Orca: A Modular Query Optimizer Architecture for Big Data | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00011239266 |
| 1,369 | Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010899832 |
| 1,424 | Velox: Meta's Unified Execution Engine | 2022 | VLDB | 0.00010719232 |
| 1,487 | Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 0.00010521722 |
| 4,137 | The Art of Balance: A RateupDB Experience of Building a CPU/GPU Hybrid Database Product | 2021 | VLDB | 6.7861661e-05 |
| 6,275 | Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse | 2023 | CIDR | 5.8270783e-05 |
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