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- From: stocker@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (ERICH FRANZ STOCKER)
- Subject: Re: Using an RDBMS for scientific apps?
- Message-ID: <17DEC199213471429@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Summary: Are there any projects doing this?
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- Keywords: RDBMS, scientific applications
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:47:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.115608.15872@newstand.syr.edu>, podgorny@npac.syr.edu (Marek Podgorny) writes...
- >We are considering use of the Oracle RDBMS as database engine
- >for scientific applications (Earth science, physics). I would
- >appreciate any pointers to similar work, completed or in progress.
- >Oracle not essential, relational technology yes.
- >
- >Marek Podgorny, NPAC, Syracuse University
-
- You didn't indicated what type of use you are going to make of the RDBMS
- in your science project. It is going to be mostly metadata storage and
- retrieval or are you thinking of putting in actual science data. Are you
- thinking of image data, remote sensed data, etc.
-
- We in NASA have used a whole bunch of relational databases for our ES
- work including Oracle. However, the actual inclusion of remote sensed
- data or ground truth data within the RDBMS is not that common. Generally,
- the relational structure is not very conducive to the storage and
- retrieval of the actual data.
-
- However, the metadata and lower quantities of tabular type of data have
- been included. Also, data processing sequences and calibration coefficients
- have also been stored in RDBMS.
-
- Erich
- NASA/GSFC
-