Characteristics of Scientific Databases
Summary: Scientific databases resist general-purpose DBMSs due to unique data structures and usage patterns. It catalogs types, properties, applications, links to statistical DB work, and outlines directions for science-specific data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Arie Shoshani
- 2. Frank Olken
- 3. Harry K.T. Wong
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | A Decomposition Storage Model | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00045255007 |
| 832 | Bit Transposed Files | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00016152615 |
| 2,695 | ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment | 1996 | VLDB | 8.2832102e-05 |
| 3,497 | A New Compression Method with Fast Searching on Large Databases | 1987 | VLDB | 7.0390264e-05 |
| 3,949 | A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes | 1988 | SIGMOD | 6.5955197e-05 |
| 5,393 | ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment | 1997 | SIGMOD | 5.5326074e-05 |
| 7,362 | Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases | 1993 | VLDB | 4.752436e-05 |
| 12,865 | Incremental Database Systems: Databases from the Ground Up | 1993 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,982 | A Database Design for Musical Information | 1987 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 13,004 | Transposition Algorithms on Very Large Compressed Databases | 1986 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0005230007 |
| 748 | Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00017268814 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,537 | Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs | 1983 | SIGMOD | 6.9983995e-05 |
| 7,039 | Data Modelling of Scientific Simulation Programs | 1982 | SIGMOD | 4.8545316e-05 |
| 14,179 | Scientific Data Management: Real-World Issues and Requirements | 1992 | SIGMOD | - |
| 2,367 | Here are my Data Files. Here are my Queries. Where are my Results? | 2011 | CIDR | 8.9511058e-05 |
| 13,486 | Managing Scientific Data: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities | 2011 | SIGMOD | - |
| 618 | A Framework for Research in Database Management for Statistical Analysis: A Primer on Statistical Database Management Problems for Computer Scientists | 1982 | SIGMOD | 0.0001906989 |
| 14,127 | Scientific Databases - State of the Art and Future Directions | 1994 | VLDB | - |
| 748 | Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00017268814 |
| 14,328 | Statistical Database Management | 1982 | SIGMOD | - |
| 89 | Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0005230007 |