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: 0.00012851949
Overall Rank: 1,278 | 91.12%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 31 of 31 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
609	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019223217
936	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015197838
1,462	ARDA: Automatic Relational Data Augmentation for Machine Learning	2020	VLDB	0.00011866333
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011336478
2,041	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.7026746e-05
2,267	Ground: A Data Context Service	2017	CIDR	9.1554363e-05
2,431	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.8259664e-05
2,959	SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment	2016	SIGMOD	7.8116974e-05
2,977	ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications	2018	VLDB	7.7850958e-05
3,351	Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub	2015	VLDB	7.1859291e-05
3,765	Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins	2022	VLDB	6.7760748e-05
4,006	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.5371762e-05
4,054	Orca: Scalable Temporal Graph Neural Network Training with Theoretical Guarantees	2023	SIGMOD	6.4910804e-05
4,779	LIMA: Fine-grained Lineage Tracing and Reuse in Machine Learning Systems	2021	SIGMOD	5.9259373e-05
4,864	Data-Sharing Markets: Model, Protocol, and Algorithms to Incentivize the Formation of Data-Sharing Consortia	2023	SIGMOD	5.8641082e-05
5,276	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	5.5887569e-05
5,283	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	5.5843052e-05
6,061	Optimizing Machine Learning Workloads in Collaborative Environments	2020	SIGMOD	5.2270653e-05
6,894	Analysis of Indexing Structures for Immutable Data	2020	SIGMOD	4.8880131e-05
7,251	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	4.7839943e-05
7,309	The Machine Learning Bazaar: Harnessing the ML Ecosystem for Effective System Development	2020	SIGMOD	4.7611148e-05
7,838	Dependency-Driven Analytics: a Compass for Uncharted Data Oceans	2017	CIDR	4.6338262e-05
8,725	OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs	2023	VLDB	4.453957e-05
8,849	SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection	2016	SIGMOD	4.4326582e-05
9,072	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.3975844e-05
9,321	READY: Completeness is in the Eye of the Beholder	2017	CIDR	4.3517399e-05
11,023	Accelerating Merkle Patricia Trie with GPU	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,152	Git is for Data	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
11,218	Demystifying the QoS and QoE of Edge-hosted Video Streaming Applications in the Wild with SNESet	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,522	A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows	2021	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,672	Peering through the Dark: An Owl's View of Inter-job Dependencies and Jobs' Impact in Shared Clusters	2019	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
294	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00028649864
676	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00018266498
709	A Case for A Collaborative Query Management System	2009	CIDR	0.00017740603
1,765	ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data	2005	CIDR	0.00010614654
2,182	Querying Data Provenance	2010	SIGMOD	9.3596252e-05

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5,283	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	5.5843052e-05
4,006	Data Platform for Machine Learning	2019	SIGMOD	6.5371762e-05
11,321	Building a Shared Conceptual Model of Complex, Heterogeneous Data Systems: A Demonstration	2022	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
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9,072	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.3975844e-05
13,293	Effective Data Versioning for Collaborative Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	-
11,152	Git is for Data	2023	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
1,565	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011336478
3,351	Collaborative Data Analytics with DataHub	2015	VLDB	7.1859291e-05