A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS

Summary: Demonstrates SciDB, a science-oriented DBMS with a nested-array model and array-centric operations such as regrid. Highlights support for uncertainty, lineage, and named versions, and presents the first public demonstration on LSST data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9941
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 0.00013089816
Overall Rank: 1,241 | 91.38%
DOI: -

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319	Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis	2010	SIGMOD	0.00027771951
1,283	Towards Linear Algebra over Normalized Data	2017	VLDB	0.00012826013
1,751	Weld: A Common Runtime for High Performance Data Analytics	2017	CIDR	0.00010673874
1,818	A Demonstration of the BigDAWG Polystore System	2015	VLDB	0.00010418381
2,904	Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld	2018	VLDB	7.9403097e-05
4,839	ChronosDB: Distributed, File Based, Geospatial Array DBMS	2018	VLDB	5.8821036e-05
5,961	Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	5.2510172e-05
7,132	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	4.817779e-05
7,625	Optimizing Probabilistic Query Processing on Continuous Uncertain Data	2011	VLDB	4.6888879e-05
7,791	Jigsaw: Efficient Optimization Over Uncertain Enterprise Data	2011	SIGMOD	4.6457822e-05
7,918	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	4.6129625e-05
10,393	LCP: Enhancing Scientific Data Management with Lossy Compression for Particles	2025	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,187	Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,493	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,618	BitFun: Fast Answers to Queries with Tunable Functions in Geospatial Array DBMS	2020	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,674	ChronosDB in Action: Manage, Process, and Visualize Big Geospatial Arrays in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,913	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032118946
21	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00086104592
26	The Design Of The Postgres Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00082350905
230	A Performance Evaluation of Four Parallel Join Algorithms in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Environment	1989	SIGMOD	0.00032145125
300	Trio: A System for Data, Uncertainty, and Lineage	2006	VLDB	0.00028503742
766	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.0001690298
817	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00016261886
926	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00015237787

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