The Researcher’s Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds

Summary: Proposes interactive, intent-driven exploration of multi-terabyte scientific databases, prioritizing speed over full correctness. Outlines a research agenda: a fast kernel, query reformulation, and guided, contextual exploration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10230
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 9.7810458e-05
Overall Rank: 2,017 | 85.97%
DOI: -

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Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,152	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013645792
1,343	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012482538
1,470	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.00011833779
1,552	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011408814
1,807	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010487796
1,840	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	0.0001034905
2,973	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	7.7902322e-05
3,070	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6137064e-05
3,940	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6153423e-05
4,506	Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2012	VLDB	6.1319277e-05
5,376	Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores	2015	SIGMOD	5.5417421e-05
6,407	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.076547e-05
6,977	FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data	2019	VLDB	4.8761802e-05
8,289	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5435639e-05
8,356	Accelerating Pathology Image Data Cross-Comparison on CPU-GPU Hybrid Systems	2012	VLDB	4.5377018e-05
8,788	FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing	2019	SIGMOD	4.451039e-05
10,381	LCP: Enhancing Scientific Data Management with Lossy Compression for Particles	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,021	SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,784	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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