The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan

Summary: RasDaMan is a universal, domain-agnostic array DBMS for multidimensional data of arbitrary size. It offers a declarative SQL-based array query language, an optimizer, and storage via flexible tiling and compression, demonstrated in geo and healthcare projects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3138
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00014620119
Overall Rank: 724 | 95.04%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276386

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. P. Baumann (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
2. A. Dehmel (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
3. P. Furtado (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
4. R. Ritsch (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
5. N. Widmann (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{baumann_sigmod98,
        title = {{The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan}},
        author = {Baumann, P. and Dehmel, A. and Furtado, P. and Ritsch, R. and Widmann, N.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276386},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276386},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 33 of 33 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
669	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.00015163245
1,742	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.8748669e-05
2,059	LINVIEW: Incremental View Maintenance for Complex Analytical Queries	2014	SIGMOD	9.2471145e-05
2,389	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.6439053e-05
2,847	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	8.0583142e-05
4,406	Incremental View Maintenance over Array Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.7191598e-05
4,442	SciQL: Array Data Processing Inside an RDBMS	2013	SIGMOD	6.700604e-05
4,527	Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan	1999	VLDB	6.6449663e-05
4,991	VisualWorldDB: A DBMS for the Visual World	2020	CIDR	6.410552e-05
5,098	LightDB: A DBMS for Virtual Reality Video	2018	VLDB	6.3652221e-05
5,195	Tensor Relational Algebra for Distributed Machine Learning System Design	2021	VLDB	6.3232105e-05
5,233	Progressive Top-k Subarray Query Processing in Array Databases	2019	VLDB	6.3054877e-05
5,414	Optimizing Tensor Programs on Flexible Storage	2023	SIGMOD	6.2258658e-05
5,534	Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	6.1831004e-05
6,157	Similarity Join over Array Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.9554363e-05
6,181	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.9494838e-05
6,382	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.8915267e-05
6,514	A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store	2020	SIGMOD	5.8559163e-05
6,831	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.7599208e-05
7,734	Using VDMS to Index and Search 100M Images	2021	VLDB	5.5563709e-05
7,961	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
8,208	M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads	2023	VLDB	5.4665936e-05
8,430	A Demonstration of Iterative Parallel Array Processing in Support of Telescope Image Analysis	2013	VLDB	5.4263087e-05
9,675	BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins	2017	VLDB	5.2380072e-05
9,758	Raptor: Large Scale Analysis of Big Raster and Vector Data	2019	VLDB	5.2250194e-05
9,936	A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays	2010	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
10,990	Polaris: An Interactive and Scalable Data Infrastructure for Polar Science	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,088	RDPro: Distributed Processing of Big Raster Data	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,653	Raptor: Large Scale Processing of Big Raster + Vector Data	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,687	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,104	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,626	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	5.093636e-05
12,832	Large-Scale, Standards-Based Earth Observation Imagery and Web Mapping Services	2003	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,517	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010520118
7,340	Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System	1997	VLDB	5.6392804e-05

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