The SDSS SkyServer, Public Access to the Sloan Digital Sky Server Data
Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray, Ani Thakar, Peter Kunszt, Tanu Malik, Jordan Raddick, Christopher Stoughton, Jan Vandenberg · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2001
The SkyServer provides Internet access to the public Sloan Digi-tal Sky Survey (SDSS) data for both astronomers and for science education. This paper describes the SkyServer goals and archi-tecture. It also describes our experience operating the SkyServer on the Internet. The SDSS data is public and well-documented so it makes a good test platform for research on database algorithms and performance.