The Catalog Archive Server Database Management System

Ani R. Thakar, Alex Szalay, George Fekete, Jim Gray
2008 Computing in science & engineering (Print)  
The multiterabyte Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS's) catalog data is stored in a commercial relational database management system with SQL query access and a built-in query optimizer. The SDSS Catalog Archive Server adds advanced data mining features to the DBMS to provide fast online access to the data.
doi:10.1109/mcse.2008.15 fatcat:7c3ktnjurzea3m6vz5asgbj4wq