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: h728f6c3b13775184
Venue: PODS
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 9.2967501e-05
Overall Rank: 1,968 | 86.77%
DOI: 10.1145/153850.153851

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute)
2. Bennet Vance (Oregon Graduate Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{maier_pods93,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '93},
        title = {{A Call to Order}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/153850.153851},
        doi = {10.1145/153850.153851},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Maier, David and Vance, Bennet},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,350	GraphDB: Modeling and Querying Graphs in Databases	1994	VLDB	0.0001094492
1,469	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010562009
2,389	A Language for Manipulating Arrays	1997	VLDB	8.5369572e-05
2,396	Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? *	2005	CIDR	8.5278724e-05
2,559	AQuery: Query Language for Ordered Data, Optimization Techniques, and Experiments	2003	VLDB	8.3002776e-05
2,887	Towards an Effective Calculus for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	7.9076462e-05
3,981	A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources	1995	VLDB	6.8772513e-05
4,559	A Query Language for List-Based Complex Objects	1994	PODS	6.5344897e-05
6,144	The BUDS Language for Distributed Bayesian Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	5.8717563e-05
12,916	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,312	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,317	Adding Disjunction to Datalog (Extended Abstract)	1994	PODS	4.9793485e-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
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034622929
809	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00013777631
1,025	Algebraic Support for Complex Objects with Arrays, Identity, and Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	0.00012427098
2,549	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.3124291e-05
3,363	SVP - a Model Capturing Sets, Streams, and Parallelism	1992	VLDB	7.3742531e-05
4,624	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.4973062e-05

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