Constance: An Intelligent Data Lake System

Summary: Constance is an intelligent data lake with metadata harvesting across heterogeneous sources and semantic annotation to prevent data swamps. Embedded query rewriting for structured and semi-structured data yields a unified interface for processing and exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5161
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 7.2823287e-05
Overall Rank: 3,281 | 77.18%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2899389

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
939	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015187344
1,644	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011041787
3,690	Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets	2018	SIGMOD	6.8384476e-05
5,529	Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets	2020	VLDB	5.4566641e-05
7,360	ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data	2020	VLDB	4.7525925e-05
7,384	The VADA Architecture for Cost-Effective Data Wrangling	2017	SIGMOD	4.7445719e-05
7,745	Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK	2017	VLDB	4.6618625e-05
8,608	Unity Catalog: Open and Universal Governance for the Lakehouse and Beyond	2025	SIGMOD	4.4853979e-05
9,316	READY: Completeness is in the Eye of the Beholder	2017	CIDR	4.3559005e-05
9,961	QueryArtisan: Generating Data Manipulation Codes for Ad-hoc Analysis in Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	4.2294678e-05
11,518	A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows	2021	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,674	Rewriting of Plain SO Tgds into Nested Tgds	2019	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
1,833	Data Wrangling: The Challenging Journey from the Wild to the Lake	2015	CIDR	0.00010378976
3,349	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.1903648e-05

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