Smoothing the ROI Curve for Scientific Data Management Applications

Summary: Argues that monolithic DBMSes yield a 'crooked' ROI curve ill‑suited to scientific repositories with petabyte scale, non‑standard types, rapid change, and diverse needs. Proposes lightweight, pragmatic strategies to modularize/loosen DB assumptions and demonstrates them via data services for an Environmental Observation and Forecasting System. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 75
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
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Overall Rank: 13,581 | 5.52%
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