SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases

Summary: SkyQuery demonstrates a pragmatic Web-services–based federation of autonomous, heterogeneous astronomy archives to build a Virtual Observatory with minimal integration effort. Describes an architecture and optimizations for evaluating probabilistic federated spatial-join queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.5096586e-05
Overall Rank: 7,994 | 45.16%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Tanu Malik (Johns Hopkins University)
2. Alex S. Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
3. Tamas Budavari (Johns Hopkins University)
4. Ani R. Thakar (Johns Hopkins University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{malik_cidr03,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '03},
        title = {{SkyQuery: A Web Service Approach to Federate Databases}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Malik, Tanu and Szalay, Alex S. and Budavari, Tamas and Thakar, Ani R.},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,157	A Black-Box Approach to Query Cardinality Estimation	2007	CIDR	9.0625592e-05
4,507	Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for Exploratory Queries over Federated Scientific Databases	2008	VLDB	6.6563628e-05
12,482	LifeRaft: Data-Driven, Batch Processing for the Exploration of Scientific Databases	2009	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
145	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00029548428
182	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00026367971
1,595	Query Optimization in Heterogeneous DBMS	1992	VLDB	0.00010249433
1,880	Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join	1998	VLDB	9.5562066e-05

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