Overview of SciDB Large Scale Array Storage, Processing and Analysis The SciDB Development

SciDB [4, 3] is a new open-source data management sys-tem intended primarily for use in application domains that involve very large (petabyte) scale array data; for example, scientific applications such as astronomy, remote sensing and climate modeling, bio-science information management, as well as commercial applications such as risk management systems in the financial services sector, and the analysis of web log data. In this talk we will describe our set of motivat-ing examples and use them to explain the features of SciDB. We then provide a snapshot of the project ‘in flight’, describ-ing our novel storage manager, array data model, query lan-guage, and extensibility frameworks