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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
8986
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
0.00023852999
Overall Rank
412 | 97.14%
DOI
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54 PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform 2008 VLDB 0.0006582344
647 Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing 2005 SIGMOD 0.00018706644
1,602 The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2005 CIDR 0.00011192099
1,706 SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications 2009 CIDR 0.00010806188
1,765 ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data 2005 CIDR 0.00010614654
1,828 Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases 2009 SIGMOD 0.0001038324
2,463 REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation 2012 VLDB 8.7438403e-05
3,964 Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices 2005 SIGMOD 6.5813475e-05
4,083 Distributed Online Aggregations 2009 VLDB 6.4583812e-05
4,114 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.4326063e-05
5,451 MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search 2005 VLDB 5.4980173e-05
5,555 Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications 2004 VLDB 5.4405244e-05
5,572 AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things 2020 CIDR 5.4276288e-05
5,838 End-to-End Support for Joins in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems 2008 VLDB 5.3076651e-05
6,162 Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor 2004 VLDB 5.1740201e-05
7,213 SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments 2009 SIGMOD 4.7943535e-05
7,659 Just-In-Time Query Retrieval Over Partially Indexed Data on Structured P2P Overlays 2008 SIGMOD 4.6817213e-05
8,659 Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed 2006 VLDB 4.4682399e-05
8,767 STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring 2007 VLDB 4.4520434e-05
9,103 Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources 2004 VLDB 4.3912489e-05
11,297 XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes 2023 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,236 SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing 2010 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,431 The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing 2007 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
12,447 HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications 2007 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,480 HiSbase: Histogram-based P2P Main Memory Data Management 2007 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
13,704 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 0.00072660894
113 Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System 1990 SIGMOD 0.0004673401
116 Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing 2000 SIGMOD 0.00046191288
196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035240105
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