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: 0.00010225504
Overall Rank: 1,880 | 86.94%
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	0.00012571112
1,413	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012110416
1,496	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	0.00011673491
2,427	Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	8.8307261e-05
2,604	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.4628537e-05
2,633	AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments	2003	VLDB	8.4116971e-05
3,744	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.7938433e-05
4,278	A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects	1994	PODS	6.285241e-05
6,321	The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	5.1075833e-05
12,441	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	4.1905499e-05
12,837	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.1905499e-05
12,842	Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract)	1994	PODS	4.1905499e-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	0.0004673401
722	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00017505795
975	Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	0.00014879359
2,637	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.399844e-05
3,342	SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism	1992	VLDB	7.1976989e-05
3,952	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.5907294e-05

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