Scientific Data Management in the Coming Decade
Abstract
This is a thought piece on data-intensive science requirements for databases and science centers. It argues that peta-scale datasets will be housed by science centers that provide substantial storage and processing for scientists who access the data via smart notebooks. Next-generation science instruments and simulations will generate these peta-scale datasets. The need to publish and share data and the need for generic analysis and visualization tools will finally create a convergence on common metadata standards. Database systems will be judged by their support of these metadata standards and by their ability to manage and access peta-scale datasets. The procedural stream-of-bytes-file-centric approach to data analysis is both too cumbersome and too serial for such large datasets. Non-procedural query and analysis of schematized self-describing data is both easier to use and allows much more parallelism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0502008,
title = {Scientific Data Management in the Coming Decade},
author = {Jim Gray and David T. Liu and Maria Nieto-Santisteban and Alexander S. Szalay and David DeWitt and Gerd Heber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0502008},
year = {2007}
}