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: 983
Venue: PODS
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.00010232242
Overall Rank: 1,879 | 86.93%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier
2. Bennet Vance

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,327	GraphDB: Modeling and Querying Graphs in Databases	1994	VLDB	0.00012569127
1,412	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012122159
1,498	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	0.0001168534
2,426	Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	8.8375297e-05
2,599	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.4702307e-05
2,628	AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments	2003	VLDB	8.4194169e-05
3,769	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.7782158e-05
4,285	A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects	1994	PODS	6.2913523e-05
6,322	The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	5.1124615e-05
12,432	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	4.1945683e-05
12,828	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.1945683e-05
12,833	Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract)	1994	PODS	4.1945683e-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
113	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00046764513
724	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00017536758
975	Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	0.00014893961
2,632	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.4074026e-05
3,337	SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism	1992	VLDB	7.2045821e-05
3,949	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.5955197e-05

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