Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future

Summary: Comprehensive tutorial on array DBMS R&D, linking past results with current systems and near-term directions. Unique in offering new material not in prior surveys, covering state-of-the-art array management and rich future opportunities. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hacdf9d4ce99f3b27
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 5.3917406e-05
Overall Rank: 8,095 | 45.60%
DOI: 10.14778/3476311.3476404
PDF: Download (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

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

BibTeX Citation

@article{zalipynis_vldb21,
        title = {{Array DBMS: Past, Present, and (Near) Future}},
        author = {Zalipynis, Ramon Antonio Rodriges},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {12},
        pages = {3186--3189},
        doi = {10.14778/3476311.3476404},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476311.3476404},
        year = {2021}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,597	AixelNet: A Pre-trained Model with Table-aware Adaptation for Structured Data Prediction	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,373	Polaris: An Interactive and Scalable Data Infrastructure for Polar Science	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,909	WebArrayDB: A Geospatial Array DBMS in Your Web Browser	2022	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,920	SimDB in Action: Road Traffic Simulations Completely Inside Array DBMS	2022	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,711	FastMosaic in Action: A New Mosaic Operator for Array DBMSs	2023	VLDB	-

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Showing 23 of 23 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
667	The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00014983804
673	The TileDB Array Data Storage Manager	2017	VLDB	0.00014891415
742	The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan	1998	SIGMOD	0.00014316764
744	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.00014305129
1,409	A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS	2009	VLDB	0.00010738582
1,469	A Query Language for Multidimensional Arrays: Design, Implementation, and Optimization Techniques	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010557094
1,547	Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation	1997	SIGMOD	0.00010289422
1,609	Dynamic Prefetching of Data Tiles for Interactive Visualization	2016	SIGMOD	0.00010079636
1,774	ArrayStore: A Storage Manager for Complex Parallel Array Processing	2011	SIGMOD	9.6661993e-05
2,011	An Experimental Study of Bitmap Compression vs. Inverted List Compression	2017	SIGMOD	9.1924806e-05
2,423	Parallel Data Analysis Directly on Scientific File Formats	2014	SIGMOD	8.4851588e-05
3,518	A Comparative Evaluation of Systems for Scalable Linear Algebra-based Analytics	2018	VLDB	7.236638e-05
3,955	Tensors: An abstraction for general data processing	2021	VLDB	6.8994712e-05
4,309	Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads	2017	VLDB	6.6703601e-05
4,505	Incremental View Maintenance over Array Data	2017	SIGMOD	6.5703306e-05
4,793	ChronosDB: Distributed, File Based, Geospatial Array DBMS	2018	VLDB	6.4105003e-05
5,094	Towards Scalable Hybrid Stores: Constraint-Based Rewriting to the Rescue	2019	SIGMOD	6.2767625e-05
5,358	Progressive Top-k Subarray Query Processing in Array Databases	2019	VLDB	6.1610915e-05
6,151	Similarity Join over Array Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.8678874e-05
9,942	Raptor: Large Scale Analysis of Big Raster and Vector Data	2019	VLDB	5.1053661e-05
12,000	Convergence of Array DBMS and Cellular Automata: A Road Traffic Simulation Case	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
12,117	BitFun: Fast Answers to Queries with Tunable Functions in Geospatial Array DBMS	2020	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
12,170	ChronosDB in Action: Manage, Process, and Visualize Big Geospatial Arrays in the Cloud	2019	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

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