Table 1 Major features and their overall levels of simulation platforms to support provenance
Platforms | Application domain | Provenance subject | Preservation (where to record) | Modeling (how to represent) | Querying (how to access) | Visualization (how to show) | Result reuse | Reproduction | Data mining |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Support level = [high \(\vert\) medium \(\vert\) low]) | |||||||||
EDISONÂ [3] | Scientific simulation (domain-neutral) | Simulation | RDBMS | Table (med) | SQL (high) | None (low) | Limited (Manual) (med) | Possible (high) | None (low) |
myGrid [90] | Biology/bioinformatics | Workflow | RDBMS | XML/HTML/RDF (med) | SQL (high) | Graph (high) | Limited (Manual) (med) | Possible (high) | None (low) |
Taverna [14] | Biology/bioinformatics | Workflow | RDBMS | XML (Scufl)+RDF (med) | SQL (high) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | None (low) |
Chimera [91] | Physics/astronomy | Workflow | RDBMS | VDL (med) | SQL+VDL (high) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
CMCSÂ [92] | Chemistry | Workflow | File system | XML/RDF (med) | Via a browser (low) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | None (low) |
e-Science | Service | Memory/RDBMS/file system | Unknown (low) | Java-based API/XQuery (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (med) | Possible (high) | None (low) | |
ESSWÂ [99] | Earth science | Workflow | RDBMS | XML (med) | SQL (high) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
Kepler [16] | General science | Workflow | File system | MoML (XML) (med) | File search (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Possible (high) | Unknown (low) |
Kepler Distributed Provenance Framework [100] | Kepler-extension | Workflow based on MapReduce | RDBMS (MySQL) | Table (med) | API/SQL (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
RAMPÂ [101] | Distributed system | Workflow based on MapReduce | File system/key-value store | File (low) | API (med) | Unknown (low) | None (low) | None (low) | Unknown (low) |
HadoopProv [102] | Distributed system | Workflow based on MapReduce | File system/key-value store | File (low) | API (med) | Graph (high) | None (low) | None (low) | Unknown (med |
Pig Lipstick [103] | Distributed system | Workflow based on MapReduce | Pig latin | OPM (high) | Graph-based API (med) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
Karma [104] | Weather forcast | Dynamic workflow | RDBMS | XML (med) | SQL (high) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
Distributed system | Workflow | VDS/RDBMS | OWL (med) | SPARQL/SQL (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | |
REDUXÂ [108] | Windows system | Workflow | RDBMS | Table (med) | SQL (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Possible (high) | Unknown (low) |
Distributed system | Workflow | File system | File (low) | File Search (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | |
Computing system | Workflow | RDBMS | Python Object (XML/Table) (med) | System-defined query (med) | Graph (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | |
PASSÂ [112] | Computing system | Linux process | Berkeley DB | File (low) | Graph-based query (nq) (med) | Graph (high) | None (low) | None (low) | Unknown (low) |
ES3Â [108] | Computing system | Linux process | DBMS | XML (med) | SQL (high) | Graph (high) | None (low) | None (low) | Unknown (low) |
CloudProv [113] | Cloud system | Real-time application | Database | File (low) | API (med) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) |
Milieu [114] | Scientific simulation | Workflow | Database | Table (med) | SQL (high) | Unknown (low) | Unknown (low) | Possible (high) | Unknown (low) |
Scientific simulation | Program | File system | (CSV) File (low) | File search (low) | Possible (med) | Unknown (low) | Possible (high) | Unknown (low) | |
Scientific simulation | Workflow/scientific data | PaaS | OPM (high) | Web-based interface (low) | Graph (high) | Possible (med) | Possible (high) | None (low) | |