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)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
- 2. Jim Gray (Microsoft)
- 3. Ani R. Thakar (Johns Hopkins University)
- 4. Peter Z. Kunszt (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- 5. Tanu Malik (Johns Hopkins University)
- 6. Jordan Raddick (Johns Hopkins University)
- 7. Christopher Stoughton (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- 8. Jan vandenBerg (Johns Hopkins University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{szalay_sigmod02,
title = {{The SDSS SkyServer - Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data}},
author = {Szalay, Alexander S. and Gray, Jim and Thakar, Ani R. and Kunszt, Peter Z. and Malik, Tanu and Raddick, Jordan and Stoughton, Christopher and vandenBerg, Jan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/564691.564758},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564758},
year = {2002}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,002 | Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00012706131 |
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