Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications

Summary: UI for DBMS tailored to scientific visualization, with boxes-and-arrows access and a flight-simulator model for navigating information space. Introduces hierarchical, multi-resolution data abstractions enabling zoom, megaplans, and buffering with delivery guarantees; Tioga prototype described. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9f8c02063bc29f61
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 9.4070548e-05
Overall Rank: 1,899 | 87.24%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Jolly Chen (University of California Berkeley)
3. Nobuko Nathan (University of California Berkeley)
4. Caroline Paxson (University of California Berkeley)
5. Jiang Wu (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb93,
        title = {{Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Chen, Jolly and Nathan, Nobuko and Paxson, Caroline and Wu, Jiang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        pages = {25--38},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,116	Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs	2009	SIGMOD	9.0149557e-05
2,650	DEVise: Integrated Querying and Visual Exploration of Large Datasets	1997	SIGMOD	8.1744404e-05
4,771	Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows	2011	VLDB	6.4230759e-05
5,574	Inspector Gadget: A Framework for Custom Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Dataflows	2011	SIGMOD	6.0794039e-05
12,908	Maitri: A Format-Independent Framework for Managing Large Scale Scientific Data	2007	CIDR	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 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	0.001992968
87	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00035719146
952	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012881214
1,436	A Framework for Research in Database Management for Statistical Analysis: A Primer on Statistical Database Management Problems for Computer Scientists	1982	SIGMOD	0.0001066083
2,442	Performance Evaluation of the Statistical Aggregation by Categorization in the SM3 System	1984	SIGMOD	8.4600966e-05
2,535	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	8.3333538e-05
2,828	Segment Indexes: Dynamic Indexing Techniques for Multi-Dimensional Interval Data	1991	SIGMOD	7.9650643e-05
3,793	A Language and a Physical Organization Technique for Summary Tables	1985	SIGMOD	7.0176249e-05
4,290	USD - a Database Management System for Scientific Research	1992	SIGMOD	6.6834046e-05

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