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: 5223
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 7.9684737e-05
Overall Rank: 2,913 | 80.02%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2899389

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rihan Hai (RWTH Aachen University)
2. Sandra Geisler (RWTH Aachen University)
3. Christoph Quix (Fraunhofer Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hai_sigmod16,
        title = {{Constance: An Intelligent Data Lake System}},
        author = {Hai, Rihan and Geisler, Sandra and Quix, Christoph},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2899389},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2899389},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
749	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00014379989
1,303	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.0001123653
3,894	Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets	2018	SIGMOD	7.0417782e-05
5,125	Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets	2020	VLDB	6.356638e-05
7,217	ParPaRaw: Massively Parallel Parsing of Delimiter-Separated Raw Data	2020	VLDB	5.668373e-05
7,245	The VADA Architecture for Cost-Effective Data Wrangling	2017	SIGMOD	5.6638209e-05
8,233	Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK	2017	VLDB	5.4610752e-05
8,605	Unity Catalog: Open and Universal Governance for the Lakehouse and Beyond	2025	SIGMOD	5.4028924e-05
9,492	READY: Completeness is in the Eye of the Beholder	2017	CIDR	5.2625108e-05
10,109	QueryArtisan: Generating Data Manipulation Codes for Ad-hoc Analysis in Data Lakes	2025	VLDB	5.1347137e-05
11,716	A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows	2021	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,869	Rewriting of Plain SO Tgds into Nested Tgds	2019	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,947	Data Wrangling: The Challenging Journey from the Wild to the Lake	2015	CIDR	9.4326202e-05
3,655	Schema Management for Document Stores	2015	VLDB	7.2226714e-05

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