Scientific Databases - State of the Art and Future Directions

Summary: Surveys why scientific workloads outgrow conventional DBMSs: complex types, massive and distributed collections, heterogeneous platforms, and specialized analytics. Advocates domain-driven co-design between scientists and database researchers, illustrated by NASA Earth-observation and genomics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8436
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,327 | 1.71%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

No non-self incoming citations found for this paper in this database.

Authors

1. Maria Zemankova (MITRE Corporation)
2. Yannis E. Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zemankova_vldb94,
        title = {{Scientific Databases - State of the Art and Future Directions}},
        author = {Zemankova, Maria and Ioannidis, Yannis E.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {752},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	12,813	Scientific Data Repositories - Designing for a Moving Target	2003	SIGMOD
2	8,839	Biological Data Management: Research, Practice and Opportunities	2004	VLDB
3	5,546	Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics	1997	VLDB
4	7,017	Access to Data in NASA's Earth Observing System	1992	SIGMOD
5	1,924	The Researcher's Guide to the Data Deluge: Querying a Scientific Database in Just a Few Seconds	2011	VLDB
6	13,566	Data, Technology and the Challenges of Abundance	2015	CIDR
7	3,980	Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs	1983	SIGMOD
8	14,379	Scientific Data Management: Real-World Issues and Requirements	1992	SIGMOD
9	13,685	Managing Scientific Data: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities	2011	SIGMOD
10	1,385	Characteristics of Scientific Databases	1984	VLDB