OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases

Summary: OrpheusDB bolts dataset versioning onto conventional relational databases, reusing their analytics capabilities while exploring alternative versioned-data models. Its online LyreSplit partitioning and migration scheme accelerates partition discovery, version retrieval (up to 20×), and migration (10×). (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hff4fb4ca96ac3c63
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 9.232331e-05
Overall Rank: 1,994 | 86.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3115404.3115417
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Authors

1. Silu Huang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Liqi Xu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Jialin Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Aaron J. Elmore (University of Chicago)
5. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb17,
        title = {{OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases}},
        author = {Huang, Silu and Xu, Liqi and Liu, Jialin and Elmore, Aaron J. and Parameswaran, Aditya},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {10},
        doi = {10.14778/3115404.3115417},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3115404.3115417},
        year = {2017}
}

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3,276	ForkBase: An Efficient Storage Engine for Blockchain and Forkable Applications	2018	VLDB	7.4656105e-05
5,100	Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V	2023	VLDB	6.271266e-05
5,117	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.265064e-05
5,255	Dagger: A Data (not code) Debugger	2020	CIDR	6.2057681e-05
5,340	Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First	2026	CIDR	6.1719029e-05
6,656	Hindsight Logging for Model Training	2021	VLDB	5.7174927e-05
6,866	Analysis of Indexing Structures for Immutable Data	2020	SIGMOD	5.6581649e-05
7,999	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	5.4088344e-05
9,304	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	5.1971324e-05
11,086	Generic Version Control: Configurable Versioning for Application-Specific Requirements	2025	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
11,153	ChARLES: Change-Aware Recovery of Latent Evolution Semantics in Relational Data	2025	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,260	Vive la Différence: Practical Diff Testing of Stateful Applications	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,940	Leam: An Interactive System for In-situ Visual Text Analysis	2021	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
12,025	A Demonstration of RELIC: A System for REtrospective Lineage InferenCe of Data Workflows	2021	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,192	Enabling Data Science for the Majority	2019	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,801	Effective Data Versioning for Collaborative Data Analytics	2020	SIGMOD	-

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
408	DBToaster: Higher-order Delta Processing for Dynamic, Frequently Fresh Views	2012	VLDB	0.00018894165
709	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014605778
1,086	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.0001209772
1,355	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00010921447
2,282	Decibel: The Relational Dataset Branching System	2016	VLDB	8.6997852e-05
2,611	Timeline Index: A Unified Data Structure for Processing Queries on Temporal Data in SAP HANA	2013	SIGMOD	8.2237793e-05
3,207	Fully Persistent B+-trees	1991	SIGMOD	7.5362162e-05
3,736	The BT-Tree: A Branched and Temporal Access Method	2000	VLDB	7.0612886e-05
4,425	Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution	2008	VLDB	6.6019689e-05
5,117	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.265064e-05
7,584	Scalable Architecture and Query Optimization for Transaction-time DBs with Evolving Schemas	2010	SIGMOD	5.4898986e-05

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