OS	master	Python support
		2.7, 3.5, 3.6
		2.7, 3.5, 3.6
		3.5, 3.6

Docs

Visit docs.quiltdata.com. Or browse the docs on GitHub.

Quilt is a data registry

Quilt provides versioned, reusable building blocks for analysis in the form of data packages. A data package may contain data of any type or size. In spirit, Quilt does for data what package managers and Docker registries do for code: provide a centralized, collaborative store of record.

Benefits

• Reproducibility - Imagine source code without versions. Ouch. Why live with un-versioned data? Versioned data makes analysis reproducible by creating unambiguous references to potentially complex data dependencies.
• Collaboration and transparency - Data likes to be shared. Quilt offers a centralized data warehouse for finding and sharing data.
• Auditing - the registry tracks all reads and writes so that admins know when data are accessed or changed
• Less data prep - the registry abstracts away network, storage, and file format so that users can focus on what they wish to do with the data.
• Deduplication - Data fragments are hashed with SHA256. Duplicate data fragments are written to disk once globally per user. As a result, large, repeated data fragments consume less disk and network bandwidth.
• Faster analysis - Serialized data loads 5 to 20 times faster than files. Moreover, specialized storage formats like Apache Parquet minimize I/O bottlenecks so that tools like Presto DB and Hive run faster.

Commands

Here are the basic Quilt commands:

Service

Quilt is offered as a managed service at quiltdata.com.

Architecture

Quilt consists of three source-level components:

1. A data catalog

   • Displays package meta-data in HTML
   • Implemented with JavaScript with redux, sagas

2. A data registry

   • Controls permissions
   • Stores pacakge fragments in blob storage
   • Stores package meta-data
   • De-duplicates repeated data fragments
   • Implemented in Python with Flask and PostgreSQL

3. A data compiler

   • Serializes tabular data to Apache Parquet
   • Transforms and parses files
   • builds packages locally
   • pushes packages to the registry
   • pulls packages from the registry
   • Implemented in Python with pandas and PyArrow