Client-Server Paradise

Summary: Paradise: GIS-focused DBMS with a client–server architecture, extends the relational model to native GIS data/operations. It extends SQL, provides a graphical querying UI, and reports Sequoia 2000 benchmark results to evaluate GIS workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h621d79a72244ca3d
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 0.00014259869
Overall Rank: 747 | 95.00%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)
2. Navin Kabra (University of Wisconsin)
3. Jun Luo (University of Wisconsin)
4. Jignesh M. Patel (University of Wisconsin)
5. Jie-Bing Yu (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{dewitt_vldb94,
        title = {{Client-Server Paradise}},
        author = {DeWitt, David J. and Kabra, Navin and Luo, Jun and Patel, Jignesh M. and Yu, Jie-Bing},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        volume = {20},
        pages = {558--569},
        year = {1994}
}

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Showing 32 of 32 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
48	Weaving Relations for Cache Performance	2001	VLDB	0.00043770511
657	The Design and Implementation of a Sequence Database System	1996	VLDB	0.00015050854
760	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.0001419395
888	Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB	2009	CIDR	0.00013213294
999	Spatial Hash-Joins	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012590189
1,131	Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries	1998	SIGMOD	0.00011875709
1,241	Processing Queries By Linear Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00011373551
1,419	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00010704914
1,549	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010257684
1,729	Closest Pair Queries in Spatial Databases	2000	SIGMOD	9.761101e-05
1,779	Caching Multidimensional Queries Using Chunks	1998	SIGMOD	9.6641413e-05
1,786	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.6344047e-05
1,884	Effectively Learning Spatial Indices	2020	VLDB	9.422145e-05
1,918	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.3612346e-05
1,965	A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures	1997	VLDB	9.2829035e-05
2,176	Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases	1999	SIGMOD	8.9031141e-05
2,403	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	8.5049013e-05
2,576	The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types	1997	VLDB	8.2547439e-05
2,838	Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension	1995	VLDB	7.9401525e-05
3,227	PREDATOR : An OR-DBMS with Enhanced Data Types	1997	SIGMOD	7.4969701e-05
3,678	The Priority R-Tree: A Practically Efficient and Worst-Case Optimal R-Tree	2004	SIGMOD	7.0857938e-05
4,288	Algebraic Manipulation of Scientific Datasets	2004	VLDB	6.6677337e-05
4,391	An Evaluation of Generic Bulk Loading Techniques	2001	VLDB	6.6093384e-05
5,921	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	5.9284908e-05
6,476	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.7551052e-05
7,324	Theoretically Optimal and Empirically Efficient R-trees with Strong Parallelizability	2018	VLDB	5.5387994e-05
7,811	K-Anonymization as Spatial Indexing: Toward Scalable and Incremental Anonymization	2007	VLDB	5.432001e-05
8,113	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.3739121e-05
10,206	PLATON: Top-down R-tree Packing with Learned Partition Policy	2023	SIGMOD	5.0491152e-05
12,044	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,314	A Teradata Content-Based Multimedia Object Manager for Massively Parallel Architectures	1996	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,336	Paradise: A Database System for GIS Applications	1995	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.

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	0.0019892478
4	The R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles	1990	SIGMOD	0.0011386412
8	The K-D-B-Tree: A Search Structure for Large Multidimensional Dynamic Indexes	1981	SIGMOD	0.00081207565
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
44	The R+-Tree: A Dynamic Multi-Dimensional Index for Objects	1987	VLDB	0.00045231517
97	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034172656
363	Linear Clustering of Objects with Multiple Attributes	1990	SIGMOD	0.00019931086
668	The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00014936842
3,080	The Montage Extensible DataBlade Architecture	1994	SIGMOD	7.6526762e-05
6,233	Papyrus GIS Demonstration	1993	SIGMOD	5.8255062e-05

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