Efficient Exploration of Large Scientific Databases

Summary: Interactive exploration of multi-million-tuple scientific catalogues using multidimensional, range-partitioned views with wavelet encoding streamed to clients. Approximate client-side decoding generates density/extent plots in seconds, scaling to 8.4M tuples in 5s. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9071
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 6.0919752e-05
Overall Rank: 5,777 | 60.37%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50061-5

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Etzard Stolte (ETH Zurich)
2. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stolte_vldb02,
        title = {{Efficient Exploration of Large Scientific Databases}},
        author = {Stolte, Etzard and Alonso, Gustavo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50061-5},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50061-5},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,871	Efficient Lineage Tracking For Scientific Workflows	2008	SIGMOD	9.5783449e-05
4,186	Algebraic Manipulation of Scientific Datasets	2004	VLDB	6.8456595e-05
12,109	Demonstrating "Data Near Here": Scientific Data Search	2015	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,813	Scientific Data Repositories - Designing for a Moving Target	2003	SIGMOD	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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