Querying the Internet with PIER

Summary: PIER extends relational query processing to Internet-scale distribution via overlay networks, relaxing traditional DB goals for massive scalability. Simulations and cluster deployment demonstrate graceful execution across thousands of machines. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9176
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00016509814
Overall Rank: 562 | 96.15%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50036-7

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ryan Huebsch (University of California Berkeley)
2. Joseph M. Hellerstein (University of California Berkeley)
3. Nick Lanham (University of California Berkeley)
4. Ion Stoica (University of California Berkeley)
5. Boon Thau Loo (University of California Berkeley)
6. Scott Shenker (International Computer Science Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huebsch_vldb03,
        title = {{Querying the Internet with PIER}},
        author = {Huebsch, Ryan and Hellerstein, Joseph M. and Lanham, Nick and Stoica, Ion and Loo, Boon Thau and Shenker, Scott},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50036-7},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50036-7},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 26 of 26 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00044503718
617	Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing	2005	SIGMOD	0.00015711988
1,635	SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications	2009	CIDR	0.00010158805
1,780	The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2005	CIDR	9.7745226e-05
1,781	ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data	2005	CIDR	9.7739542e-05
1,804	Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases	2009	SIGMOD	9.7171985e-05
2,454	REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation	2012	VLDB	8.5560058e-05
3,844	Distributed Online Aggregations	2009	VLDB	7.0782059e-05
5,114	Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management	2004	VLDB	6.358317e-05
5,417	Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices	2005	SIGMOD	6.2255551e-05
5,543	AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things	2020	CIDR	6.1800731e-05
5,662	Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications	2004	VLDB	6.129927e-05
6,006	End-to-End Support for Joins in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems	2008	VLDB	6.0119118e-05
6,081	MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search	2005	VLDB	5.9850223e-05
6,140	Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2004	VLDB	5.9632265e-05
7,349	SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments	2009	SIGMOD	5.6367214e-05
8,664	Just-In-Time Query Retrieval Over Partially Indexed Data on Structured P2P Overlays	2008	SIGMOD	5.3887668e-05
8,940	STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring	2007	VLDB	5.3483178e-05
8,953	Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed	2006	VLDB	5.3458888e-05
9,250	Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources	2004	VLDB	5.29845e-05
11,494	XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,423	SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,616	The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
12,632	HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications	2007	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,665	HiSbase: Histogram-based P2P Main Memory Data Management	2007	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,891	Querying at Internet Scale	2004	SIGMOD	-

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
26	Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems	2002	PODS	0.00052982574
53	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00041071971
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
342	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00020673706

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