RONIN: Data Lake Exploration

Summary: RONIN enables data-lake exploration by constructing organizations—on-the-fly hierarchical groupings—over keyword- or joinability-search results. It uniquely interleaves search with adaptive hierarchical navigation, avoiding the need for users to identify an initial dataset or rely solely on linkage graphs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 12681
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 6.0287066e-05
Overall Rank: 5,956 | 59.14%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476364

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Authors

1. Paul Ouellette (University of Rochester)
2. Aidan Sciortino (University of Rochester)
3. Fatemeh Nargesian (University of Rochester)
4. Bahar Ghadiri Bashardoost (University of Toronto)
5. Erkang Zhu (Microsoft)
6. Ken Q. Pu (Ontario Tech University)
7. Renée J. Miller (Northeastern University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ouellette_vldb21,
        title = {{RONIN: Data Lake Exploration}},
        author = {Ouellette, Paul and Sciortino, Aidan and Nargesian, Fatemeh and Bashardoost, Bahar Ghadiri and Zhu, Erkang and Pu, Ken Q. and Miller, Renée J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2863--2866},
        doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476364},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476364},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,123	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.8878137e-05
5,300	Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets	2022	VLDB	6.2751506e-05
5,510	Responsible Data Integration: Next-generation Challenges	2022	SIGMOD	6.1919207e-05
9,065	R2D2: Reducing Redundancy and Duplication in Data Lakes	2023	SIGMOD	5.3251649e-05
10,080	Fainder: A Fast and Accurate Index for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2024	VLDB	5.158939e-05
10,486	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,638	A Theoretical Framework for Distribution-Aware Dataset Search	2025	PODS	5.093636e-05
10,897	OpenForge: Probabilistic Metadata Integration	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,933	LakeVisage: Towards Scalable, Flexible and Interactive Visualization Recommendation for Data Discovery over Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,062	Data Discovery in Data Lakes: Operations, Indexes, Systems	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,577	Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover's Distance	2022	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
749	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00014379989
878	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00013463374
1,303	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001123653
1,495	LSH Ensemble: Internet-Scale Domain Search	2016	VLDB	0.00010571481
3,015	Organizing Data Lakes for Navigation	2020	SIGMOD	7.848843e-05
5,644	A Demo of the Data Civilizer System	2017	SIGMOD	6.1378898e-05
6,260	Interactive Navigation of Open Data Linkages	2017	VLDB	5.9371372e-05

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