Characteristics of Scientific Databases

Summary: Characterizes scientific databases across disciplines, highlighting domain-specific structures and collection/analysis workflows that general-purpose DBMSs poorly support. Synthesizes common properties and derives management requirements, leveraging—but extending—statistical-database techniques. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7832
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.00010956506
Overall Rank: 1,385 | 90.50%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
2. Frank Olken (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
3. Harry K.T. Wong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shoshani_vldb84,
        title = {{Characteristics of Scientific Databases}},
        author = {Shoshani, Arie and Olken, Frank and Wong, Harry K.T.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '84},
        pages = {147},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
115	A Decomposition Storage Model	1985	SIGMOD	0.00032338948
1,136	Bit Transposed Files	1985	VLDB	0.00012027691
3,277	ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment	1996	VLDB	7.5726758e-05
3,949	A New Compression Method with Fast Searching on Large Databases	1987	VLDB	6.9991277e-05
4,528	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.6448298e-05
6,598	ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment	1997	SIGMOD	5.8261133e-05
7,385	Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases	1993	VLDB	5.6278655e-05
13,059	Incremental Database Systems: Databases from the Ground Up	1993	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,180	A Database Design for Musical Information	1987	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,203	Transposition Algorithms on Very Large Compressed Databases	1986	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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
249	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00023275528
1,356	Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases	1982	VLDB	0.00011050127

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