BigSur: A System For the Management of Earth Science Data

Summary: BigSur applies a DBMS-centric architecture to Earth-observation data, integrating massive raster storage with calibration, processing pipelines, visualization, and scientific modeling. A distributed prototype demonstrates flexible management for evolving, multi-user workloads at terabyte-to-petabyte scale. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hfd83d32a84634ca3
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 6.342265e-05
Overall Rank: 4,948 | 66.74%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Paul Brown (University of California Berkeley)
2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{brown_vldb95,
        title = {{BigSur: A System For the Management of Earth Science Data}},
        author = {Brown, Paul and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        volume = {21},
        pages = {720},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,915	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	9.3840448e-05
7,692	An Open Abstract-Object Storage System	1996	SIGMOD	5.4770817e-05
13,222	Performance Measurements of Tertiary Storage Devices	1998	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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