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Infrastructure / Storage & Retrieval

DVC

Treeverse

DVC (Data Version Control) versions datasets and models by keeping their contents in external storage and their version metadata in Git, so a repository records which data produced which result. It also defines pipelines as a dependency graph and tracks experiment runs and metrics against them. A command-line tool and a VS Code extension are the two interfaces.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

2,664,290 PyPI downloads of `dvc` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 1M-10M band of the software usage scale, level 4.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as single-purpose store or index. Placed two bands below the vespa anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the persist-index-retrieve path a product provides itself, at what scale and over how many retrieval modes.

  • https://github.com/treeverse/dvc/blob/main/README.rst recorded 2026-08-18

    README still documents versioning of data and models with contents in cloud storage and version information in Git, plus pipeline definitions and experiment tracking, through a command-line tool and a VS Code extension.

Verified 2026-08-18