Raven: Towards Unified File Management for Data Lakehouse Systems
Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-11-14 CS paper digest. Area: Databases. Authors: Keonwoo Oh (University of Maryland), Akshay Mehra (Dolby Labs), Joshua Kimball (Dolby Labs), Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland) arXiv: 2611.15975 · PDF · Code · Submitted to ICDE 2027 TL;DR Lakehouse metadata sits at one of two extremes. Open table formats (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi) write everything as files next to the data....