USD - a Database Management System for Scientific Research
Summary: USD is a Lisp-based DBMS for scientific research that uses semantic networks to model unstructured data atop a relational core. It enables easy integration of tools as foreign processes, shown on seismic data from underground nuclear explosions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rowland R Johnson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 2. Mandy Goldner (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 3. Mitch Lee (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 4. Keith McKay (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 5. Robert Shectman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
- 6. John Woodruff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{johnson_sigmod92,
title = {{USD - a Database Management System for Scientific Research}},
author = {Johnson, Rowland R and Goldner, Mandy and Lee, Mitch and McKay, Keith and Shectman, Robert and Woodruff, John},
series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/130283.130286},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130286},
year = {1992}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,851 | Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications | 1993 | VLDB | 9.6139015e-05 |
| 5,212 | Managing Derived Data in the Gaea Scientific DBMS | 1993 | VLDB | 6.3160954e-05 |
| 12,618 | Maitri: A Format-Independent Framework for Managing Large Scale Scientific Data | 2007 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
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