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: 10231
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 0.00010339715
Overall Rank: 1,844 | 87.19%
DOI: -

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Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,151	Blink and It's Done: Interactive Queries on Very Large Data	2012	VLDB	0.00013634671
1,346	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012472598
1,470	Processing a Trillion Cells per Mouse Click	2012	VLDB	0.00011827274
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
1,801	H2O: A Hands-free Adaptive Store	2014	SIGMOD	0.00010485628
1,845	dbTouch: Analytics at your Fingertips	2013	CIDR	0.00010339281
2,975	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	7.7871791e-05
3,076	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6063803e-05
3,941	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6090509e-05
4,507	Stochastic Database Cracking: Towards Robust Adaptive Indexing in Main-Memory Column-Stores	2012	VLDB	6.1271582e-05
5,378	Holistic Indexing in Main-memory Column-stores	2015	SIGMOD	5.5379945e-05
6,403	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.0717043e-05
6,976	FishStore: Fast Ingestion and Indexing of Raw Data	2019	VLDB	4.8715045e-05
8,282	Knowledge Graph Exploration Systems: are we lost?	2022	CIDR	4.5392079e-05
8,352	Accelerating Pathology Image Data Cross-Comparison on CPU-GPU Hybrid Systems	2012	VLDB	4.5333481e-05
8,785	FishStore: Faster Ingestion with Subset Hashing	2019	SIGMOD	4.4467731e-05
10,393	LCP: Enhancing Scientific Data Management with Lossy Compression for Particles	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,024	SeLeP: Learning Based Semantic Prefetching for Exploratory Database Workloads	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,792	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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