TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems

Summary: Standalone catalog DB tailored for large heterogeneous systems: hierarchical path-based model, range/versioning-optimized storage and correlated scans for fast queries. Novel MVOCC protocol for serializable multi-client concurrency; outperforms Metastore/Delta/Iceberg. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h7e8f7ce7bbfe5fc0
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.0571508e-05
Overall Rank: 10,227 | 31.24%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749696

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Keonwoo Oh (University of Maryland)
2. Pooja Nilangekar (University of Maryland)
3. Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{oh_vldb25,
        title = {{TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems}},
        author = {Oh, Keonwoo and Nilangekar, Pooja and Deshpande, Amol},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {11},
        pages = {4323--4336},
        doi = {10.14778/3749646.3749696},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3749646.3749696},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,857	Interoperable ACID Transactions for Open Table Formats	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 25 of 25 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
23	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	0.00055406774
35	Hekaton: SQL Server’s Memory-Optimized OLTP Engine	2013	SIGMOD	0.00048001919
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038531147
170	High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases	2012	VLDB	0.0002705961
221	ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes	1990	VLDB	0.00024274803
228	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023920439
374	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00019707844
459	Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores	2020	VLDB	0.00017856221
680	Amazon Redshift Re-invented	2022	SIGMOD	0.00014828697
733	ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels	2004	SIGMOD	0.00014379182
746	Spanner: Becoming a SQL System	2017	SIGMOD	0.00014286107
872	An Empirical Evaluation of In-Memory Multi-Version Concurrency Control	2017	VLDB	0.00013342029
1,123	Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark	2018	SIGMOD	0.0001193233
1,280	LiveGraph: A Transactional Graph Storage System with Purely Sequential Adjacency List Scans	2020	VLDB	0.00011223622
2,029	Teseo and the Analysis of Structural Dynamic Graphs	2021	VLDB	9.1592382e-05
2,089	FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key Value Store	2021	SIGMOD	9.06623e-05
2,200	Precision Locks	1981	SIGMOD	8.8727857e-05
2,959	Sortledton: a Universal, Transactional Graph Data Structure	2022	VLDB	7.8076128e-05
3,062	Opportunities for Optimism in Contended Main-Memory Multicore Transactions	2020	VLDB	7.6920087e-05
3,121	Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Database Based on Refinable Timestamps	2016	VLDB	7.6267344e-05
3,151	Eon Mode: Bringing the Vertica Columnar Database to the Cloud	2018	SIGMOD	7.5906513e-05
4,332	Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems	2023	CIDR	6.6587744e-05
4,436	The Complexity Of Testing Predicate Locks	1979	SIGMOD	6.6002712e-05
6,920	Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses	2024	VLDB	5.6441822e-05
7,078	DuckPGQ: Efficient Property Graph Queries in an analytical RDBMS	2023	CIDR	5.6053079e-05

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