Array Databases

Summary form only given. The paper presents the Array Databases using the example of rasdaman, a fully implemented system in operational service since years. We introduce an array query language which embeds seamlessly into standard SQL and show how this language can be supported by a streamlined architecture which allows for effective storage and query optimization and parallelization. In this context we emphasize that Array Database research can gain a lot from combining the knowledge of database, supercomputing, and programming language domains.