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: 3268
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 0.00012706131
Overall Rank: 1,002 | 93.13%
DOI: 10.1145/342009.335439

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
2. Peter Z. Kunszt (Johns Hopkins University)
3. Ani Thakar (Johns Hopkins University)
4. Jim Gray (Microsoft)
5. Don Slutz (Microsoft)
6. Robert J. Brunner (California Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{szalay_sigmod00,
        title = {{DESIGNING AND MINING MULTI-TERABYTE ASTRONOMY ARCHIVES: THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY}},
        author = {Szalay, Alexander S. and Kunszt, Peter Z. and Thakar, Ani and Gray, Jim and Slutz, Don and Brunner, Robert J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '00},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/342009.335439},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/342009.335439},
        year = {2000}
}

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Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

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155	MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data	2009	VLDB	0.00028713176
394	A Case for Fractured Mirrors	2002	VLDB	0.00019306179
868	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00013504796
1,376	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00010973814
1,719	The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data	2002	SIGMOD	9.9268286e-05
3,451	GridDB: A Data-Centric Overlay for Scientific Grids	2004	VLDB	7.4033802e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
7,160	DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines	2022	CIDR	5.6855887e-05
7,711	Optimizing Probabilistic Query Processing on Continuous Uncertain Data	2011	VLDB	5.5614818e-05
8,646	Supporting User-Defined Functions on Uncertain Data	2013	VLDB	5.3928856e-05
9,825	Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets	2003	VLDB	5.2143223e-05
10,666	HyperMR: Efficient Hypergraph-enhanced Matrix Storage on Compute-in-Memory Architecture	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,104	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,670	Modeling and Querying Vague Spatial Objects Using Shapelets	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,813	Scientific Data Repositories - Designing for a Moving Target	2003	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,782	Broadcast Disks: Data Management for Asymmetric Communication Environments	1995	SIGMOD	9.7735503e-05

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