Characteristics of Scientific Databases
Summary: Characterizes scientific databases across disciplines, highlighting domain-specific structures and collection/analysis workflows that general-purpose DBMSs poorly support. Synthesizes common properties and derives management requirements, leveraging—but extending—statistical-database techniques. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Arie Shoshani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- 2. Frank Olken (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
- 3. Harry K.T. Wong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
BibTeX Citation
@article{shoshani_vldb84,
title = {{Characteristics of Scientific Databases}},
author = {Shoshani, Arie and Olken, Frank and Wong, Harry K.T.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '84},
pages = {147},
year = {1984}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | A Decomposition Storage Model | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00031928929 |
| 1,151 | Bit Transposed Files | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00011808563 |
| 3,321 | ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment | 1996 | VLDB | 7.4294278e-05 |
| 4,014 | A New Compression Method with Fast Searching on Large Databases | 1987 | VLDB | 6.8539459e-05 |
| 4,624 | A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes | 1988 | SIGMOD | 6.4973062e-05 |
| 6,722 | ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment | 1997 | SIGMOD | 5.6956908e-05 |
| 7,527 | Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases | 1993 | VLDB | 5.5016558e-05 |
| 13,349 | Incremental Database Systems: Databases from the Ground Up | 1993 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,470 | A Database Design for Musical Information | 1987 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,493 | Transposition Algorithms on Very Large Compressed Databases | 1986 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 260 | Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00022880477 |
| 1,390 | Metadata Management for Large Statistical Databases | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00010816545 |
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