DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale

Summary: Proposes dataset version control with branch/merge/diff/search for large, divergent datasets—bringing git-like semantics to data management. Presents DataHub, a collaborative-analysis platform built on this VCS, and outlines scalability, provenance, storage, and merge challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 260
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00012854744
Overall Rank: 1,281 | 91.10%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
610	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019232674
939	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015187344
1,463	ARDA: Automatic Relational Data Augmentation for Machine Learning	2020	VLDB	0.00011869295
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011345567
2,037	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.7120139e-05
2,269	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.147379e-05
2,430	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.8330417e-05
2,965	SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment	2016	SIGMOD	7.8059273e-05
2,972	ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications	2018	VLDB	7.79259e-05
3,347	Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub	2015	VLDB	7.1921364e-05
3,942	Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins	2022	VLDB	6.6114622e-05
4,003	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.54347e-05
4,047	Orca: Scalable Temporal Graph Neural Network Training with Theoretical Guarantees	2023	SIGMOD	6.4972105e-05
4,774	LIMA: Fine-grained Lineage Tracing and Reuse in Machine Learning Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.9316087e-05
4,863	Data-Sharing Markets: Model, Protocol, and Algorithms to Incentivize the Formation of Data-Sharing Consortia	2023	SIGMOD	5.8697471e-05
5,271	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	5.5941385e-05
5,280	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	5.5896735e-05
6,053	Optimizing Machine Learning Workloads in Collaborative Environments	2020	SIGMOD	5.2326838e-05
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
7,311	The Machine Learning Bazaar: Harnessing the ML Ecosystem for Effective System Development	2020	SIGMOD	4.7656884e-05
7,833	Dependency-Driven Analytics: a Compass for Uncharted Data Oceans	2017	CIDR	4.6382648e-05
8,729	OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs	2023	VLDB	4.4582221e-05
8,849	SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection	2016	SIGMOD	4.4369118e-05
9,076	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.401804e-05
9,316	READY: Completeness is in the Eye of the Beholder	2017	CIDR	4.3559005e-05
11,020	Accelerating Merkle Patricia Trie with GPU	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,149	Git is for Data	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
11,216	Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet	2023	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,518	A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,667	Peering through the Dark: An Owl's View of Inter-job Dependencies and Jobs' Impact in Shared Clusters	2019	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
293	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00028676087
676	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00018281665
711	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017751589
1,767	ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data	2005	CIDR	0.00010623574
2,173	Querying Data Provenance	2010	SIGMOD	9.3676609e-05

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5,280	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	5.5896735e-05
4,003	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.54347e-05
11,319	Building a Shared Conceptual Model of Complex, Heterogeneous Data Systems: A Demonstration	2022	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
6,981	Dataset Relationship Management	2019	CIDR	4.8743957e-05
9,076	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.401804e-05
2,430	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.8330417e-05
13,280	Effective Data Versioning for Collaborative Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	-
11,149	Git is for Data	2023	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011345567
3,347	Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub	2015	VLDB	7.1921364e-05