Open Source
Quilt
Quilt is a Scientific Data Management Platform on AWS that helps teams and AI find, trust, and reuse data through deeply versioned, context-rich data packages.
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About Quilt
Quilt is a scientific data management platform built on AWS. It enables teams to create deeply versioned, context-rich data packages that help both humans and AI find, trust, and reuse data. The tool is open source, written in TypeScript, and leverages S3 for storage.
Best for
Research teams and data engineers managing versioned scientific datasets on AWS
Use cases
- Versioning and tracking large scientific datasets for reproducibility
- Sharing context-rich data packages across research teams
- Enabling AI models to discover and access trusted data on AWS
Notes
1,364 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Strong versioning with full context metadata improves data provenance
- Open source and integrates natively with AWS S3 and other services
- Actively maintained with a sizable community (1,364 GitHub stars)
Cons
- Tightly coupled to AWS, limiting portability to other clouds
- Requires familiarization with data packaging concepts and AWS setup
- Primarily designed for scientific data, may be overkill for simpler use cases
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 3.2.1 (released 15 Oct 2020)
- GitHub stars
- 1,370
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Stars and usage
How Quilt is growing
1,364 to 1,370
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Sources
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- GitHubOfficial
- github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438Registry
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Changelog
What changed
Released 3.2.1
Released 3.2.0
Released 3.1.14
Released 3.1.13
Released 3.1.12
Released 3.1.11
Released 3.1.10
Released 3.1.9
Released 3.1.8
Released 3.1.7
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