Data Profiling with Metanome

Summary: Metanome is an extensible data profiling platform that automatically discovers metadata beyond simple statistics. It integrates state-of-the-art profiling algorithms, supports benchmarking and ranking, and provides visualization to compare approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd995f0b82055e952
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.0001076306
Overall Rank: 1,399 | 90.63%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824086
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Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thorsten Papenbrock (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
2. Tanja Bergmann (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
3. Moritz Finke (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
4. Jakob Zwiener (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)
5. Felix Naumann (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)

BibTeX Citation

@article{papenbrock_vldb15,
        title = {{Data Profiling with Metanome}},
        author = {Papenbrock, Thorsten and Bergmann, Tanja and Finke, Moritz and Zwiener, Jakob and Naumann, Felix},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {1860--1863},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824086},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824086},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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602	A Hybrid Approach to Functional Dependency Discovery	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015670535
1,490	Efficient Discovery of Approximate Dependencies	2018	VLDB	0.0001047928
1,534	Cardinality Estimation: An Experimental Survey	2018	VLDB	0.00010309919
1,627	Efficient Denial Constraint Discovery with Hydra	2018	VLDB	0.00010021689
1,722	SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed	2018	VLDB	9.781628e-05
1,980	Discovery of Approximate (and Exact) Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	9.2527187e-05
2,752	Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables	2019	SIGMOD	8.0387193e-05
3,420	Data Profiling – A Tutorial	2017	SIGMOD	7.300051e-05
3,432	UGuide – User-Guided Discovery of FD-Detectable Errors	2017	SIGMOD	7.288198e-05
4,538	Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning	2020	VLDB	6.5398994e-05
5,132	Efficient Estimation of Inclusion Coefficient using HyperLogLog Sketches	2018	VLDB	6.2462533e-05
5,377	Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?	2023	VLDB	6.1396287e-05
5,655	DataPrep.EDA: Task-Centric Exploratory Data Analysis for Statistical Modeling in Python	2021	SIGMOD	6.0320824e-05
6,600	Mining Approximate Acyclic Schemes from Relations	2020	SIGMOD	5.721104e-05
8,424	Crossing the finish line faster when paddling the Data Lake with KAYAK	2017	VLDB	5.3189694e-05
8,723	From Papers to Practice: The openclean Open-Source Data Cleaning Library	2021	VLDB	5.2705676e-05
9,003	DataLoom: Simplifying Data Loading with LLMs	2024	VLDB	5.2256178e-05
9,150	Discovering Similarity Inclusion Dependencies	2023	SIGMOD	5.2061579e-05
9,997	Discovering Functional Dependencies through Hitting Set Enumeration	2024	SIGMOD	5.0845476e-05
10,068	Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data	2022	VLDB	5.0742132e-05
10,096	Discovering Approximate Inclusion Dependencies	2025	VLDB	5.068372e-05
11,467	Mining Meaningful Keys and Foreign Keys with High Precision and Recall	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,625	SplitDF: Splitting Dataframes for Memory-Efficient Data Analysis	2024	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
11,923	Statistical Schema Learning using Occam's Razor	2022	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,096	Making DBMSes Dependency-Aware	2020	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,263	Demonstration of Smoke: A Deep Breath of Data-Intensive Lineage Applications	2018	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
727	Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms	2015	VLDB	0.00014426954
4,245	Scalable Discovery of Unique Column Combinations	2014	VLDB	6.6958006e-05
4,264	Divide & Conquer-based Inclusion Dependency Discovery	2015	VLDB	6.6809569e-05

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