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Querying the Internet with PIER

Summary: Pier uses an overlay-network based massively distributed query engine to run relational queries across thousands of machines on the Internet. It argues for relaxing traditional DB goals to achieve scalability, validating the approach with simulations and a large-scale experimental deployment. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8985
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00023905489
Overall Rank
412 | 97.14%
DOI
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53 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.00066144767
646 Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing 2005 SIGMOD 0.0001871827
1,600 The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2005 CIDR 0.00011201407
1,711 SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications 2009 CIDR 0.0001080509
1,767 ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data 2005 CIDR 0.00010623574
1,828 Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases 2009 SIGMOD 0.00010389392
2,458 REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation 2012 VLDB 8.7683462e-05
3,962 Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices 2005 SIGMOD 6.5876809e-05
4,093 Distributed Online Aggregations 2009 VLDB 6.4558147e-05
4,124 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.4332935e-05
5,440 MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search 2005 VLDB 5.5033018e-05
5,547 Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications 2004 VLDB 5.4457955e-05
5,563 AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things 2020 CIDR 5.4328568e-05
5,824 End-to-End Support for Joins in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems 2008 VLDB 5.3128962e-05
6,159 Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2004 VLDB 5.1790009e-05
7,213 SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments 2009 SIGMOD 4.7989853e-05
7,661 Just-In-Time Query Retrieval Over Partially Indexed Data on Structured P2P Overlays 2008 SIGMOD 4.6862657e-05
8,662 Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed 2006 VLDB 4.4722862e-05
8,770 STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring 2007 VLDB 4.456315e-05
9,104 Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources 2004 VLDB 4.3954618e-05
11,295 XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes 2023 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,228 SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing 2010 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,422 The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing 2007 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
12,438 HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications 2007 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,471 HiSbase: Histogram-based P2P Main Memory Data Management 2007 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
13,690 Querying at Internet Scale 2004 SIGMOD -
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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
43 Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems 2002 PODS 0.00072723062
113 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.00046764513
115 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing 2000 SIGMOD 0.00046221215
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035261496
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