BigSur: A System For the Management of Earth Science Data

Summary: BigSur, a DBMS-centric prototype for earth science data management supporting NASA MTPE/EOSDIS scale and data products. Demonstrated with two distributed groups; currently 1 TB, designed for 10 PB with flexible objectives to meet scientific workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8323
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 6.2297983e-05
Overall Rank: 4,389 | 69.47%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Paul Brown
2. Michael Stonebraker

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,599	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	0.00011202032
6,869	An Open Abstract-Object Storage System	1996	SIGMOD	4.9005143e-05
12,739	Performance Measurements of Tertiary Storage Devices	1998	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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