The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data

Summary: Public SkyServer exposes SDSS data to scientists and educators; describes goals, architecture, and data loading pipeline. Public, well-documented data serve as a testbed for DB algorithms and performance; discusses operation experience and web design. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3382
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 0.00011226338
Overall Rank: 1,591 | 88.94%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,168	SODA: Generating SQL for Business Users	2012	VLDB	0.00013541143
2,433	ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems	2024	VLDB	8.8285962e-05
2,604	GridDB: A Data-Centric Overlay for Scientific Grids	2004	VLDB	8.4647212e-05
2,693	An Architecture for Recycling Intermediates in a Column-store	2009	SIGMOD	8.2883398e-05
3,896	Updating a Cracked Database	2007	SIGMOD	6.6575888e-05
5,473	Facilitating SQL Query Composition and Analysis	2020	SIGMOD	5.4885366e-05
8,377	Adaptive Sampling for Geometric Problems over Data Streams	2004	PODS	4.5321044e-05
8,498	Customizable Parallel Execution of Scientific Stream Queries	2005	VLDB	4.4981372e-05
8,774	Tiresias: Enabling Predictive Autonomous Storage and Indexing	2022	VLDB	4.4559995e-05
10,378	HyperMR: Efficient Hypergraph-enhanced Matrix Storage on Compute-in-Memory Architecture	2025	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,622	SQL for Data Scientists: Designing SQL Tutorials for Scalable Online Teaching	2020	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,287	LifeRaft: Data-Driven, Batch Processing for the Exploration of Scientific Databases	2009	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
12,419	Community-Driven Data Grids	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
821	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016272349

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