Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB

Summary: Consolidates cross-domain requirements from astronomy, particle physics, fusion, remote sensing, oceanography and biology to define SciDB, noting that many 'big science' needs align with complex business analytics. Describes partner-funded development (eBay, LSST, Microsoft, SLAC, Vertica), two lighthouse customers (LSST, eBay), and sketches a preliminary SciDB design targeting these requirements. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 121
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00015237787
Overall Rank: 926 | 93.57%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
169	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038967371
1,241	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00013089816
1,346	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012472598
1,494	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011677793
1,878	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00010229691
2,260	LINVIEW: Incremental View Maintenance for Complex Analytical Queries	2014	SIGMOD	9.1771829e-05
2,367	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	8.9502761e-05
2,959	SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment	2016	SIGMOD	7.8116974e-05
2,975	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	7.7871791e-05
3,941	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6090509e-05
4,822	SciQL: Array Data Processing Inside an RDBMS	2013	SIGMOD	5.891732e-05
5,112	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	5.6831818e-05
5,969	Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine	2011	VLDB	5.2469372e-05
5,976	MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database	2010	VLDB	5.2438744e-05
7,132	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	4.817779e-05
7,417	Uncertain Time-Series Similarity: Return to the Basics	2012	VLDB	4.7309512e-05
8,925	Enabling Signal Processing over Data Streams	2017	SIGMOD	4.4229886e-05
11,868	Database System Support of Simulation Data	2016	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,913	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,081	Lazy ETL in Action: ETL Technology Dates Scientific Data	2013	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,219	RecBench: Benchmarks for Evaluating Performance of Recommender System Architectures	2011	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
20	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086163998
21	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00086104592
24	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Index For Multi-Dimensional Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00083300888
26	The Design Of The Postgres Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00082350905
88	The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.0005262025
230	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00032145125
300	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00028503742
601	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.00019372971
766	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.0001690298
817	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016261886
2,510	One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results	2007	CIDR	8.6241461e-05
3,980	The BUCKY Object-Relational Benchmark	1997	SIGMOD	6.5617607e-05

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