A demonstration of SciDB
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, H. Kimura, K-T Lim, Jennie Rogers, R. Simakov, Emad Soroush, Pavel Velikhov, D. L. Wang, Magda Balazinska, Jacek Becla, David J. DeWitt, Brandi S. Heath, David Maier, Samuel R. Madden, Jignesh M. Patel, Michael R Stonebraker, Stanley B. Zdonik · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2009
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).