The object versioning problem identified in issue #149 persisted after the release of v2.2.8. The resulting mitigation steps before the planned v3 release of data is to ignore the version.json file held in the collection's root directory. As of v2.3 this file is no longer read, written or updated. Instead the collection level methods will explicitly set the versioning type at the store level. This means one locations holds versioning state, the collection.json. This simplified the codebase and appears to be backward compatible.
The Dataset Project provides tools for working with collections of JSON documents easily. It uses a simple key and object pair to organize JSON documents into a collection. It supports SQL querying of the objects stored in a collection.
It is suitable for temporary storage of JSON objects in data processing pipelines as well as a persistent storage mechanism for collections of JSON objects.
The Dataset Project provides command line programs and a web service for working with JSON objects as a collection or individual objects. As such it is well suited for data science projects as well as building web applications that work with metadata.