Dependency-Driven Analytics: a Compass for Uncharted Data Oceans

Summary: Proposes DDA: extract a compact dependency graph from raw telemetry to index and constrain analyses, reducing cognitive and compute costs for petabyte-scale log analytics. Deployed at Microsoft on job/file lineage using off-the-shelf Big Data+graph DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 307
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 4.6338262e-05
Overall Rank: 7,838 | 45.53%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,171	Computation Reuse in Analytics Job Service at Microsoft	2018	SIGMOD	6.3800823e-05
5,088	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7023581e-05
8,725	OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs	2023	VLDB	4.453957e-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)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
22	SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets	2008	VLDB	0.00084679526
149	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00041085859
213	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0003371037
341	EmptyHeaded: A Relational Engine for Graph Processing	2016	SIGMOD	0.00026850764
609	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019223217
668	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00018428925
921	Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities	2008	SIGMOD	0.00015261463
1,278	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012851949
2,030	Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark	2016	VLDB	9.734332e-05
2,031	Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance	2012	VLDB	9.7341007e-05
6,103	WOO: A Scalable and Multi-tenant Platform for Continuous Knowledge Base Synthesis	2013	VLDB	5.2054474e-05

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