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: 0.00015247726
Overall Rank: 928 | 93.55%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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168	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038946305
1,239	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00013102195
1,343	NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012482538
1,495	Ricardo: Integrating R and Hadoop	2010	SIGMOD	0.00011691049
1,876	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	0.00010239284
2,255	LINVIEW: Incremental View Maintenance for Complex Analytical Queries	2014	SIGMOD	9.1884983e-05
2,367	Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results?	2011	CIDR	8.9511058e-05
2,965	SQLShare: Results from a Multi-Year SQL-as-a-Service Experiment	2016	SIGMOD	7.8059273e-05
2,973	Parallel In-Situ Data Processing with Speculative Loading	2014	SIGMOD	7.7902322e-05
3,940	NoDB in Action: Adaptive Query Processing on Raw Data	2012	VLDB	6.6153423e-05
4,820	SciQL: Array Data Processing Inside an RDBMS	2013	SIGMOD	5.8972557e-05
5,111	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	5.6885921e-05
5,964	Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine	2011	VLDB	5.2520617e-05
5,969	MCDB-R: Risk Analysis in the Database	2010	VLDB	5.2489117e-05
7,134	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	4.822331e-05
7,418	Uncertain Time-Series Similarity: Return to the Basics	2012	VLDB	4.7354852e-05
8,922	Enabling Signal Processing over Data Streams	2017	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05
11,860	Database System Support of Simulation Data	2016	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,905	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,073	Lazy ETL in Action: ETL Technology Dates Scientific Data	2013	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,211	RecBench: Benchmarks for Evaluating Performance of Recommender System Architectures	2011	VLDB	4.1945683e-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	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00086459551
21	C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS	2005	VLDB	0.00086087497
24	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Index For Multi-Dimensional Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00083378538
26	The Design Of The Postgres Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00082378685
86	The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00052563276
232	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00032122485
299	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00028525071
600	Linear Road: A Stream Data Management Benchmark	2004	VLDB	0.0001938744
769	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.00016918508
821	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016272349
2,508	One Size Fits All? – Part 2: Benchmarking Results	2007	CIDR	8.6308132e-05
3,979	The BUCKY Object-Relational Benchmark	1997	SIGMOD	6.5681058e-05

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