ChronosDB: Distributed, File Based, Geospatial Array DBMS

Summary: ChronosDB: distributed, file-based geospatial N-d array DBMS that delegates in-situ processing to mature raster tools, with a formal N-d array model to abstract files and tools. Rich, scalable array operations; outperforms SciDB by up to 75x on average. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h8fae86bde6d4c003
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 6.4134808e-05
Overall Rank: 4,790 | 67.80%
DOI: 10.14778/3231751.3231754

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ramon Antonio Rodriges Zalipynis (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zalipynis_vldb18,
        title = {{ChronosDB: Distributed, File Based, Geospatial Array DBMS}},
        author = {Zalipynis, Ramon Antonio Rodriges},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '18},
        volume = {11},
        number = {10},
        pages = {1247--1261},
        doi = {10.14778/3231751.3231754},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3231751.3231754},
        year = {2018}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,352	Progressive Top-k Subarray Query Processing in Array Databases	2019	VLDB	6.1640095e-05
6,719	Replicated Layout for In-Memory Database Systems	2022	VLDB	5.6985717e-05
8,088	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
11,306	ArrayMorph: Optimizing Hyperslab Queries on the Cloud for Machine Learning Pipelines	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,367	Polaris: An Interactive and Scalable Data Infrastructure for Polar Science	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,440	RDPro: Distributed Processing of Big Raster Data	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,903	WebArrayDB: A Geospatial Array DBMS in Your Web Browser	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,914	SimDB in Action: Road Traffic Simulations Completely Inside Array DBMS	2022	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,960	Raptor: Large Scale Processing of Big Raster + Vector Data	2021	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,994	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,111	BitFun: Fast Answers to Queries with Tunable Functions in Geospatial Array DBMS	2020	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,164	ChronosDB in Action: Manage, Process, and Visualize Big Geospatial Arrays in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,706	FastMosaic in Action: A New Mosaic Operator for Array DBMSs	2023	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
248	Overview of SciDB: Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis	2010	SIGMOD	0.00023189805
672	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.0001489638
1,408	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00010743556
1,469	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010562009
1,774	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.6688719e-05
2,422	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.4891004e-05
4,599	Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan	1999	VLDB	6.5077908e-05

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