A Call to Order

Summary: Argues scientific users avoid DBMSs because they lack first-class ordered types (e.g., multidimensional arrays) to represent scientific data. Frames core design challenges, compares approaches and trade-offs, and directs DB researchers to relevant prior work outside the field. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 982
Venue: PODS
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 9.4991504e-05
Overall Rank: 1,909 | 86.91%
DOI: 10.1145/153850.153851

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute)
2. Bennet Vance (Oregon Graduate Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maier_pods93,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '93},
        title = {{A Call to Order}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/153850.153851},
        doi = {10.1145/153850.153851},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Maier, David and Vance, Bennet},
        year = {1993}
}

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Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,359	GraphDB: Modeling and Querying Graphs in Databases	1994	VLDB	0.00011040427
1,434	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010800479
2,335	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	8.7304507e-05
2,359	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.698016e-05
2,507	AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments	2003	VLDB	8.4889096e-05
2,825	Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	8.0869692e-05
3,915	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	7.0193727e-05
4,467	A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects	1994	PODS	6.6843364e-05
6,030	The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	6.0009079e-05
12,626	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,022	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,027	Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract)	1994	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
98	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034510605
782	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00014080876
1,003	Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	0.00012705891
2,505	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.4960641e-05
3,299	SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism	1992	VLDB	7.5418401e-05
4,528	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.6448298e-05

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