Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System

Summary: Relational dataset branching with built-in version control enables concurrent analysis and provenance tracking. Evaluates three versioned storage engines for fast queries and low storage, plus an exhaustive benchmark for future design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11352
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 8.8330417e-05
Overall Rank: 2,430 | 83.10%
DOI: -

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2,269	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.147379e-05
2,972	ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications	2018	VLDB	7.79259e-05
4,003	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.54347e-05
5,086	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7078462e-05
5,271	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	5.5941385e-05
5,684	Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger	2020	CIDR	5.3720749e-05
6,295	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	5.1249204e-05
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6,891	Analysis of Indexing Structures for Immutable Data	2020	SIGMOD	4.8927093e-05
7,254	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	4.7885915e-05
7,994	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	4.61099e-05
9,076	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.401804e-05
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10,335	Generic Version Control: Configurable Versioning for Application-Specific Requirements	2025	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,585	Vive la Différence: Practical Diff Testing of Stateful Applications	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083894938
676	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00018281665
957	Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL	2012	VLDB	0.00015048214
1,281	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012854744
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011345567
1,822	Change-Centric Management of Versions in an XML Warehouse	2001	VLDB	0.00010420264
2,913	Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System	1986	SIGMOD	7.9126252e-05
2,942	Fully Persistent B+-trees	1991	SIGMOD	7.842391e-05
3,134	Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression	2008	VLDB	7.4967274e-05
3,911	The BT-Tree: A Branched and Temporal Access Method	2000	VLDB	6.6359583e-05
6,841	Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree	2012	VLDB	4.9105477e-05

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