The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark

Summary: SEQUOIA 2000 storage benchmark using real Earth Science datasets and queries to model scientific DBMS workloads. Evaluates GRASS, IPW, and POSTGRES; claims Earth Science problems generalize to broader engineering and scientific DBMS needs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha7b81aa5fbe6c324
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.00014983804
Overall Rank: 667 | 95.52%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170038

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Jim Frew (University of California Berkeley)
3. Kenn Gardels (University of California Berkeley)
4. Jeff Meredith (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod93,
        title = {{THE SEQUOIA 2000 STORAGE BENCHMARK}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Frew, Jim and Gardels, Kenn and Meredith, Jeff},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170038},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170038},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 26 of 26 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
125	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030462671
744	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.00014305129
752	Partition Based Spatial-Merge Join	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014239937
1,305	STING: A Statistical Information Grid Approach to Spatial Data Mining	1997	VLDB	0.00011094431
1,547	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010289422
1,788	Plan Selection based on Query Clustering	2002	VLDB	9.6275306e-05
2,164	Selectivity Estimation in Spatial Databases	1999	SIGMOD	8.9309999e-05
2,303	Selectivity Estimation in Extensible Databases - A Neural Network Approach	1998	VLDB	8.6685874e-05
2,571	The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types	1997	VLDB	8.2805997e-05
2,827	Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the 'Correlation' Fractal Dimension	1995	VLDB	7.9637452e-05
3,226	PREDATOR : An OR-DBMS with Enhanced Data Types	1997	SIGMOD	7.5072146e-05
3,846	Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases	1995	VLDB	6.9826134e-05
4,252	Selectivity Estimation for Spatio-Temporal Queries to Moving Objects	2002	SIGMOD	6.6989321e-05
5,433	Querying Spatial Databases via Topological Invariants	1998	PODS	6.1308517e-05
5,908	Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output	1995	VLDB	5.9480991e-05
6,219	Window Query-Optimal Clustering of Spatial Objects	1995	PODS	5.844834e-05
6,817	Predictions and Challenges for Database Systems in the Year 2000	1993	VLDB	5.6718076e-05
7,458	The hB-Pi-tree: A Modified hB-tree Supporting Concurrency, Recovery and Node Consolidation	1995	VLDB	5.5203926e-05
7,841	Efficient Concurrency Control in Multidimensional Access Methods	1999	SIGMOD	5.4409195e-05
8,095	Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future	2021	VLDB	5.3917406e-05
8,970	The Impact of Global Clustering on Spatial Database Systems	1994	VLDB	5.2473594e-05
9,283	Are Window Queries Representative For Arbitrary Range Queries?	1996	PODS	5.2031172e-05
9,427	MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources	2000	SIGMOD	5.1778983e-05
9,605	Similarity Query Processing Using Disk Arrays	1998	SIGMOD	5.1533056e-05
9,825	Hierarchically Organized Skew-Tolerant Histograms for Geographic Data Objects	2010	SIGMOD	5.1233734e-05
13,295	Paradise: A Database System for GIS Applications	1995	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0019923528
46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044767144
101	Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System	1986	SIGMOD	0.00033923053
116	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.00031633451
4,073	Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs	1983	SIGMOD	6.8175763e-05
4,626	A Specialized Data Management System For Parallel Execution of Particle Physics Codes	1988	SIGMOD	6.4942565e-05

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