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: 4.6945188e-05
Overall Rank: 7,616 | 47.02%
DOI: -

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Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,669	A Black-Box Approach to Query Cardinality Estimation	2007	CIDR	8.3389856e-05
4,675	Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for Exploratory Queries over Federated Scientific Databases	2008	VLDB	6.0056894e-05
12,287	LifeRaft: Data-Driven, Batch Processing for the Exploration of Scientific Databases	2009	CIDR	4.1945683e-05

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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
148	Efficient Processing of Spatial Joins Using R-trees	1993	SIGMOD	0.00041182766
165	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00039502525
1,839	Query Optimization in Heterogeneous DBMS	1992	VLDB	0.00010349298
2,094	Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join	1998	VLDB	9.5547223e-05

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