MetaDB: Putting File-System Structure Back into Distributed Databases
Weekly Paper Notes — one of the top picks from the 2026-10-31 CS paper digest. Area: Databases. Authors: Zebin Ren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Biao Cao, Zhihui Yin, Qiushi Chen, Jielong Jian, Jiwei Xiong, Xinxing Wang, Yan Xing, Liguo Duan, Ran Zheng, Xianjun Meng, Zhenyu Hou (Baidu), Kang Chen (Tsinghua University, now Peking University) arXiv: 2610.32247 · PDF TL;DR Most large storage systems now keep their namespace in a distributed database: Facebook’s Tectonic on ZippyDB, Google’s Colossus on Bigtable, HopsFS on NDB....