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: 4.6382648e-05
Overall Rank: 7,833 | 45.51%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,174	Computation Reuse in Analytics Job Service at Microsoft	2018	SIGMOD	6.3856219e-05
5,086	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7078462e-05
8,729	OneProvenance: Efficient Extraction of Dynamic Coarse-Grained Provenance From Database Query Event Logs	2023	VLDB	4.4582221e-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)

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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	0.0008456613
149	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00041101118
214	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.0003363692
342	EmptyHeaded: A Relational Engine for Graph Processing	2016	SIGMOD	0.00026795977
610	Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets	2016	SIGMOD	0.00019232674
667	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00018440557
923	Provenance and Scientific Workflows: Challenges and Opportunities	2008	SIGMOD	0.0001527609
1,281	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012854744
2,027	Titian: Data Provenance Support in Spark	2016	VLDB	9.7437067e-05
2,028	Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance	2012	VLDB	9.7433981e-05
6,099	WOO: A Scalable and Multi-tenant Platform for Continuous Knowledge Base Synthesis	2013	VLDB	5.2104516e-05

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