Provenance-Based Debugging and Drill-Down in Data-Oriented Workflows

Robert Ikeda, Junsang Cho, Charlie Fang, Semih Salihoglu, Satoshi Torikai, Jennifer Widom

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Abstract

Panda (for Provenance and Data) is a system that supports the creation and execution of data-oriented workflows, with automatic provenance generation and built-in provenance tracing operations. Workflows in Panda are arbitrary a cyclic graphs containing both relational (SQL) processing nodes and opaque processing nodes programmed in Python. For both types of nodes, Panda generates logical provenance - provenance information stored at the processing-node level - and uses the generated provenance to support record-level backward tracing and forward tracing operations. In our demonstration we use Panda to integrate, process, and analyze actual education data from multiple sources. We specifically demonstrate how Panda's provenance generation and tracing capabilities can be very useful for workflow debugging, and for drilling down on specific results of interest. © 2012 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1249-1252
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9780769547473
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2012
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (IIS-0904497)and a KAUST research grant.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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