Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics

Summary: Frames impending petabyte-per-year HEP workloads as a test of whether “genuine” DBMSs can scale to scientific data. Surveys physics-led approaches and identifies database research needs, aiming to bridge HEP and VLDB communities. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8653
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.1794414e-05
Overall Rank: 5,546 | 61.96%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David M. Malon (Argonne National Laboratory)
2. Edward N. May (Argonne National Laboratory)

BibTeX Citation

@article{malon_vldb97,
        title = {{Critical Database Technologies for High Energy Physics}},
        author = {Malon, David M. and May, Edward N.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '97},
        pages = {580},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,837	Evaluating Query Languages and Systems for High-Energy Physics Data	2022	VLDB	5.2110542e-05
12,847	OBK - An Online High Energy Physics' Meta-Data Repository	2002	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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