MIT OpenCourseWare, 6.830 Database Systems, Fall 2010, Prof. Carlo Curino and Prof. Michael Stonebraker. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Reorganized into modules by Sequence 106. No lecture videos were published for this course; each session is notes plus readings. Source · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Module 7 · Beyond the relational core · Activity 24 of 32
Lecture 18: Scientific databases
Lecture notes · Michael Stonebraker
Readings and discussion questions
Read:
Stonebraker, Michael, et al. “Requirements for Science Data Bases and SciDB.” CIDR Perspectives (2009).
The paper is a high-level description of the requirements of a new generation DBMS (SciDB) that supports modern scientific projects.
Assigned by MIT for this session; links go to the papers where MIT linked them. Books: Readings in Database Systems (the Red Book, 4th ed.) and Ramakrishnan & Gehrke.