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Where the Rubber Meets the Sky: Bridging the Gap between Databases and Science
Jim Gray, Alexander S. Szalay
Scientists in all domains face a data avalanche - both from better instruments and from improved simulations. We believe that computer science tools and computer scientists are in…
Performance Considerations for Gigabyte per Second Transcontinental Disk-to-Disk File Transfers
Peter Kukol, Jim Gray
Moving data from CERN to Pasadena at a gigabyte per second using the next generation Internet requires good networking and good disk IO. Ten Gbps Ethernet and OC192 links are in pl…
Scientific Data Management in the Coming Decade
Jim Gray, David T. Liu, Maria Nieto-Santisteban +3
This is a thought piece on data-intensive science requirements for databases and science centers. It argues that peta-scale datasets will be housed by science centers that provide…
There Goes the Neighborhood: Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Search
Jim Gray, Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar +5
We explored ways of doing spatial search within a relational database: (1) hierarchical triangular mesh (a tessellation of the sphere), (2) a zoned bucketing system, and (3) repres…
The Revolution In Database System Architecture
Jim Gray
Database system architectures are undergoing revolutionary changes. Algorithms and data are being unified by integrating programming languages with the database system. This gives…
A Quick Look at SATA Disk Performance
Tom Barclay, Wyman Chong, Jim Gray
We have been investigating the use of low-cost, commodity components for multi-terabyte SQL Server databases. Dubbed storage bricks, these servers are white box PCs containing the…