The array database that is not a database: file based array query answering in rasdaman

  • Authors:
  • Peter Baumann;Alex Mircea Dumitru;Vlad Merticariu

  • Affiliations:
  • Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany;Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany;Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SSTD'13 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Array DBMSs extend the set of supported data structures in databases with (potentially large) multi-dimensional arrays. This information category actually comprises a core data structure in many scientific applications. When it comes to Petabyte archives, storage costs prohibit importing (i.e., copying) such data into a database. Therefore, in-situ processing of database queries is required, that is: evaluating queries on the original files, without previous insertion into the database. We have implemented such an in-situ feature for the rasdaman Array DBMS. In this demonstration, we show with rasdaman how query processing in array databases can simultaneously rely on arrays stored in the database -- as usual -- and in operating system files, like preexisting archives.