A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS
Summary: Demonstrates SciDB, a science-oriented DBMS with a nested-array model and array-centric operations such as regrid. Highlights support for uncertainty, lineage, and named versions, and presents the first public demonstration on LSST data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. P. Cudre-Mauroux (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. H. Kimura (Brown University)
- 3. K.-T. Lim (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- 4. J. Rogers (Brown University)
- 5. R. Simakov (Research Institute for System Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
- 6. E. Soroush (University of Washington)
- 7. P. Velikhov (Research Institute for System Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
- 8. D. L. Wang (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- 9. M. Balazinska (University of Washington)
- 10. J. Becla (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
- 11. D. DeWitt (Microsoft)
- 12. B. Heath (VoltDB)
- 13. D. Maier (Portland State University)
- 14. S. Madden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 15. J. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
- 16. M. Stonebraker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 17. S. Zdonik (Brown University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cudremauroux_vldb09,
title = {{A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS}},
author = {Cudre-Mauroux, P. and Kimura, H. and Lim, K.-T. and Rogers, J. and Simakov, R. and Soroush, E. and Velikhov, P. and Wang, D. L. and Balazinska, M. and Becla, J. and DeWitt, D. and Heath, B. and Maier, D. and Madden, S. and Patel, J. and Stonebraker, M. and Zdonik, S.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687584},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687584},
year = {2009}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.0020210012 |
| 52 | GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00041107291 |
| 99 | The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System | 1987 | VLDB | 0.00034506601 |
| 242 | A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00023604323 |
| 331 | Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage | 2006 | VLDB | 0.00020936658 |
| 726 | Client-Server Paradise | 1994 | VLDB | 0.0001460632 |
| 868 | Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB | 2009 | CIDR | 0.00013504796 |
| 1,002 | Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00012706131 |
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