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SkyServer Traffic Report - The First Five Years
Vik Singh, Jim Gray, Ani Thakar +5
The SkyServer is an Internet portal to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Catalog Archive Server. From 2001 to 2006, there were a million visitors in 3 million sessions generating 170 mi…
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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive: Migrating a Multi-Terabyte Astronomical Archive from Object to Relational DBMS
Aniruddha R. Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Peter Z. Kunszt +1
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Science Archive is the first in a series of multi-Terabyte digital archives in Astronomy and other data-intensive sciences. To facilitate data mining i…
SkyQuery: A WebService Approach to Federate Databases
Tanu Malik, Alex S. Szalay, Tamas Budavari +1
Traditional science searched for new objects and phenomena that led to discoveries. Tomorrow's science will combine together the large pool of information in scientific archives an…
Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database
Jim Gray, Alex S. Szalay, Ani R. Thakar +4
An earlier paper (Szalay et. al. "Designing and Mining MultiTerabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey," ACM SIGMOD 2000) described the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (S…
Designing and Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Alexander S. Szalay, Peter Kunszt, Ani Thakar +1
The next-generation astronomy digital archives will cover most of the universe at fine resolution in many wave-lengths, from X-rays to ultraviolet, optical, and infrared. The archi…