The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan

Summary: RasDaMan is a universal, domain-agnostic array DBMS for multidimensional data of arbitrary size. It offers a declarative SQL-based array query language, an optimizer, and storage via flexible tiling and compression, demonstrated in geo and healthcare projects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha48b82a1eb845b51
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 0.00014322786
Overall Rank: 741 | 95.02%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276386

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. P. Baumann (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
2. A. Dehmel (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
3. P. Furtado (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
4. R. Ritsch (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)
5. N. Widmann (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{baumann_sigmod98,
        title = {{The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan}},
        author = {Baumann, P. and Dehmel, A. and Furtado, P. and Ritsch, R. and Widmann, N.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276386},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276386},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 33 of 33 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
672	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.0001489638
1,774	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.6688719e-05
2,087	LINVIEW: Incremental View Maintenance for Complex Analytical Queries	2014	SIGMOD	9.068879e-05
2,422	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.4891004e-05
2,778	AIDA - Abstraction for Advanced In-Database Analytics	2018	VLDB	8.0299506e-05
4,503	Incremental View Maintenance over Array Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.5734419e-05
4,522	SciQL: Array Data Processing Inside an RDBMS	2013	SIGMOD	6.5623475e-05
4,599	Spatio-Temporal Retrieval with RasDaMan	1999	VLDB	6.5077908e-05
5,026	VisualWorldDB: A DBMS for the Visual World	2020	CIDR	6.3091791e-05
5,166	LightDB: A DBMS for Virtual Reality Video	2018	VLDB	6.2463315e-05
5,289	Tensor Relational Algebra for Distributed Machine Learning System Design	2021	VLDB	6.1940481e-05
5,352	Progressive Top-k Subarray Query Processing in Array Databases	2019	VLDB	6.1640095e-05
5,439	Optimizing Tensor Programs on Flexible Storage	2023	SIGMOD	6.1279464e-05
5,666	Skew-Aware Join Optimization for Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	6.0462129e-05
6,149	Similarity Join over Array Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.8706665e-05
6,278	Just-In-Time Data Virtualization: Lightweight Data Management with ViDa	2015	CIDR	5.8263939e-05
6,461	The Era of Big Spatial Data	2017	VLDB	5.7768622e-05
6,631	A Relational Matrix Algebra and its Implementation in a Column Store	2020	SIGMOD	5.7270666e-05
6,966	Incremental Elasticity For Array Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.6327836e-05
7,459	M2Bench: A Database Benchmark for Multi-Model Analytic Workloads	2023	VLDB	5.5217718e-05
7,897	Using VDMS to Index and Search 100M Images	2021	VLDB	5.4317361e-05
8,088	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.3942942e-05
8,588	A Demonstration of Iterative Parallel Array Processing in Support of Telescope Image Analysis	2013	VLDB	5.3078077e-05
9,822	BlockJoin: Efficient Matrix Partitioning Through Joins	2017	VLDB	5.1254832e-05
9,935	Raptor: Large Scale Analysis of Big Raster and Vector Data	2019	VLDB	5.107784e-05
10,117	A*-tree: A Structure for Storage and Modeling of Uncertain Multidimensional Arrays	2010	VLDB	5.0789354e-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
11,960	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
12,397	Supporting Data Uncertainty in Array Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,916	Index-Based Multidimensional Array Queries: Safety and Equivalence	2007	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,122	Large-Scale, Standards-Based Earth Observation Imagery and Web Mapping Services	2003	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,546	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010294163
7,480	Geo/Environmental and Medical Data Management in the RasDaMan System	1997	VLDB	5.5135285e-05

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