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: 11353
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 8.8259664e-05
Overall Rank: 2,431 | 83.11%
DOI: -

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2,267	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.1554363e-05
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4,006	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.5371762e-05
5,088	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7023581e-05
5,276	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	5.5887569e-05
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7,251	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	4.7839943e-05
7,998	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	4.606568e-05
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10,347	Generic Version Control: Configurable Versioning for Application-Specific Requirements	2025	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00083899338
676	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00018266498
956	Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL	2012	VLDB	0.00015068342
1,278	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012851949
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011336478
1,819	Change-Centric Management of Versions in an XML Warehouse	2001	VLDB	0.0001041068
2,917	Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System	1986	SIGMOD	7.9050859e-05
2,945	Fully Persistent B+-trees	1991	SIGMOD	7.8349001e-05
3,141	Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression	2008	VLDB	7.4910063e-05
3,915	The BT-Tree: A Branched and Temporal Access Method	2000	VLDB	6.629645e-05
6,839	Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree	2012	VLDB	4.9060482e-05

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