Client-Server Paradise

Summary: Paradise: GIS-focused DBMS with a client–server architecture, extends the relational model to native GIS data/operations. It extends SQL, provides a graphical querying UI, and reports Sequoia 2000 benchmark results to evaluate GIS workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8414
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 0.0001460632
Overall Rank: 726 | 95.03%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)
2. Navin Kabra (University of Wisconsin)
3. Jun Luo (University of Wisconsin)
4. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
5. Jie-Bing Yu (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dewitt_vldb94,
        title = {{Client-Server Paradise}},
        author = {DeWitt, David J. and Kabra, Navin and Luo, Jun and Patel, Jignesh M. and Yu, Jie-Bing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        volume = {20},
        pages = {558--569},
        year = {1994}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
49	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043781096
639	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015434427
728	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014542772
868	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00013504796
994	Spatial Hash-Joins	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012764684
1,107	Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries	1998	SIGMOD	0.00012145695
1,219	Processing Queries By Linear Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00011620957
1,376	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00010973814
1,517	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010520118
1,685	Closest Pair Queries in Spatial Databases	2000	SIGMOD	0.00010017073
1,732	Caching Multidimensional Queries Using Chunks	1998	SIGMOD	9.9065981e-05
1,742	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.8748669e-05
1,840	Effectively Learning Spatial Indices	2020	VLDB	9.6404567e-05
1,868	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.589955e-05
1,901	A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures	1997	VLDB	9.5068846e-05
2,127	Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases	1999	SIGMOD	9.127762e-05
2,335	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	8.7304507e-05
2,528	The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types	1997	VLDB	8.4620669e-05
2,774	Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension	1995	VLDB	8.1372328e-05
3,168	PREDATOR : An OR-DBMS with Enhanced Data Types	1997	SIGMOD	7.6736931e-05
3,593	The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case Optimal R-Tree	2004	SIGMOD	7.2750277e-05
4,186	Algebraic Manipulation of Scientific Datasets	2004	VLDB	6.8456595e-05
5,304	An Evaluation of Generic Bulk Loading Techniques	2001	VLDB	6.2733516e-05
5,795	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	6.0859946e-05
6,382	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.8915267e-05
7,151	Theoretically Optimal and Empirically Efficient R-trees with Strong Parallelizability	2018	VLDB	5.6873519e-05
7,632	K-Anonymization as Spatial Indexing: Toward Scalable and Incremental Anonymization	2007	VLDB	5.5777517e-05
7,961	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.5181056e-05
9,974	PLATON: Top-down R-tree Packing with Learned Partition Policy	2023	SIGMOD	5.1845938e-05
11,687	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,977	A Teradata Content-Based Multimedia Object Manager for Massively Parallel Architectures	1996	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,999	Paradise: A Database System for GIS Applications	1995	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0020210012
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.001157935
8	The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes	1981	SIGMOD	0.00082404462
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
42	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00046170812
92	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034759032
354	Linear Clustering of Objects with Multiple Attributes	1990	SIGMOD	0.00020355578
650	The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00015319951
3,010	The Montage Extensible DataBlade Architecture	1994	SIGMOD	7.8538236e-05
6,091	Papyrus GIS Demonstration	1993	SIGMOD	5.979538e-05

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