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: h03c44ed000959a40
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.0001613973
Overall Rank: 575 | 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)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	PNUTS: Yahoo!'s Hosted Data Serving Platform	2008	VLDB	0.00043937456
634	Verifying Completeness of Relational Query Results in Data Publishing	2005	SIGMOD	0.00015350423
1,643	SCADS: Scale-Independent Storage for Social Computing Applications	2009	CIDR	9.9801601e-05
1,818	ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data	2005	CIDR	9.5594619e-05
1,830	The Architecture of PIER: an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2005	CIDR	9.5381828e-05
1,848	Authenticated Join Processing in Outsourced Databases	2009	SIGMOD	9.5022605e-05
2,491	REX: Recursive, Delta-Based Data-Centric Computation	2012	VLDB	8.3733589e-05
3,912	Distributed Online Aggregations	2009	VLDB	6.9103187e-05
5,184	Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management	2004	VLDB	6.2235544e-05
5,573	Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices	2005	SIGMOD	6.0628752e-05
5,656	AnyLog: a Grand Unification of the Internet of Things	2020	CIDR	6.0318106e-05
5,810	Network-Aware Query Processing for Stream-based Applications	2004	VLDB	5.9703192e-05
6,148	End-to-End Support for Joins in Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe Systems	2008	VLDB	5.855829e-05
6,223	MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search	2005	VLDB	5.8286278e-05
6,284	Enhancing P2P File-Sharing with an Internet-Scale Query Processor	2004	VLDB	5.8075244e-05
7,514	SmartCIS: Integrating Digital and Physical Environments	2009	SIGMOD	5.4900077e-05
8,851	Just-In-Time Query Retrieval Over Partially Indexed Data on Structured P2P Overlays	2008	SIGMOD	5.2489348e-05
9,132	STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring	2007	VLDB	5.208561e-05
9,140	Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed	2006	VLDB	5.2082006e-05
9,459	Data Sharing Through Query Translation in Autonomous Sources	2004	VLDB	5.1599963e-05
11,853	XDB in Action: Decentralized Cross-Database Query Processing for Black-Box DBMSes	2023	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,763	SecureBlox: Customizable Secure Distributed Data Processing	2010	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,954	The Data Ring: Community Content Sharing	2007	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,970	HomeViews: Peer-to-Peer Middleware for Personal Data Sharing Applications	2007	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,003	HiSbase: Histogram-based P2P Main Memory Data Management	2007	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
14,247	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	0.00051942573
53	Eddies: Continuously Adaptive Query Processing	2000	SIGMOD	0.00040739114
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034518001
345	R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries	1986	VLDB	0.00020445813

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