A Demonstration of SciDB: A Science-Oriented DBMS

Phillipe Cudre-Mauroux, MIT
Hideaki Kimura, Brown University
Kian-Tat Lim, SLAC
Jennie Rogers, Brown University
Roman Simakov, NIISI
Emad Soroush, U. of Washington
Pavel Velikhov, NIISI
Daniel L. Wang, SLAC
Magdalena Balazinska, U. of Washington
Jacek Becla, SLAC
David DeWitt, Microsoft
Bobbi Heath, Vertica Inc.
David Maier, Portland State University
Samuel Madden, MIT
Michael Stonebraker, MIT
Stan Zdonik, Brown University

Abstract— In CIDR 2009, we presented a collection of requirements for SciDB, a DBMS that would meet the needs of scientific users. These included a nested-array data model, science-specific operations such as regrid, and support for uncertainty, lineage, and named versions. In this paper, we present an overview of SciDB's key features and outline a demonstration of the first version of SciDB on data and operations from one of our “lighthouse” users, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

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