Homogenizing Data and Metadata Retrieval in Scientific Applications
Dimitar Mišev, Peter Baumann · 2015
Support for large arrays has been increasingly gaining attention by the database community. Array databases are a quickly expanding category of database management systems that treat large, multidimensional array data as first-class database citizens, allowing convenient and efficient storage and retrieval. Large array data on its own, however, is rarely meaningful or machine understandable. Therefore, arrays are almost always linked to additional, small metadata, typically managed in relational databases. This leads to an information integration gap, an "impedance mismatch" that we address with the work presented in this paper.