Ground: A Data Context Service

Summary: Ground is an open-source data-context service that centralizes metadata about Applications, Behavior, and Change to capture and expose the information that informs data use. Paper presents the ABCs framing, a common metamodel and API, analysis of storage backends, and research directions for scalable, evolvable context management. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 284
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 9.506714e-05
Overall Rank: 1,902 | 86.96%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Joseph M. Hellerstein (Trifacta; University of California Berkeley)
2. Vikram Sreekanti (University of California Berkeley)
3. Joseph E. Gonzalez (University of California Berkeley)
4. James Dalton (Capital One)
5. Akon Dey (Awake Networks)
6. Sreyashi Nag (University of Delhi)
7. Krishna Ramachandran (Skyhigh Networks)
8. Sudhanshu Arora (Cloudera)
9. Arka Bhattacharyya (University of California Berkeley)
10. Shirshanka Das (LinkedIn)
11. Mark Donsky (Cloudera)
12. Gabe Fierro (University of California Berkeley)
13. Chang She (Cloudera)
14. Carl Steinbach (LinkedIn)
15. Venkat Subramanian (Dataguise)
16. Eric Sun (LinkedIn)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hellerstein_cidr17,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '17},
        title = {{Ground: A Data Context Service}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Sreekanti, Vikram and Gonzalez, Joseph E. and Dalton, James and Dey, Akon and Nag, Sreyashi and Ramachandran, Krishna and Arora, Sudhanshu and Bhattacharyya, Arka and Das, Shirshanka and Donsky, Mark and Fierro, Gabe and She, Chang and Steinbach, Carl and Subramanian, Venkat and Sun, Eric},
        year = {2017}
}

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514	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00017178673
1,077	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012269438
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2,235	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.8913373e-05
2,415	Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web	2013	VLDB	8.6069635e-05
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