Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Summary: SDSS-like multi-terabyte astronomy archive: ~200M objects, 100+ dimensional attributes, multi-wavelength sky coverage, highly correlated data. Unique DB innovations: distributed storage, multidimensional indices, data partitioning with hot-tag attributes, parallel I/O, hashing for clustering, and specialized angular-distance and similarity sweeps for object properties. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3206
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00016272349
Overall Rank: 821 | 94.30%
DOI: -

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168	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00038946305
464	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.0002245871
928	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00015247726
1,239	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00013102195
1,591	The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011226338
2,604	GridDB: A Data-Centric Overlay for Scientific Grids	2004	VLDB	8.4647212e-05
4,758	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9422515e-05
7,306	DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines	2022	CIDR	4.7678574e-05
7,623	Optimizing Probabilistic Query Processing on Continuous Uncertain Data	2011	VLDB	4.6933659e-05
8,433	Supporting User-Defined Functions on Uncertain Data	2013	VLDB	4.514792e-05
9,663	Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets	2003	VLDB	4.3089103e-05
10,378	HyperMR: Efficient Hypergraph-enhanced Matrix Storage on Compute-in-Memory Architecture	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,905	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,477	Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets	2007	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,620	Scientific Data Repositories - Designing for a Moving Target	2003	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
798	Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments	1995	SIGMOD	0.00016579273

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