Metadata management for scientific databases

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Highlights：

• ScQL: a metadata aware query language for databases of scientific samples.

• ScQL is compiled to a lower level representation suitable for optimization.

• The novel meta-first optimization exploits metadata so as to speed up query evaluation.

摘要

•ScQL: a metadata aware query language for databases of scientific samples.•ScQL is compiled to a lower level representation suitable for optimization.•The novel meta-first optimization exploits metadata so as to speed up query evaluation.

论文关键词：Metadata management,Scientific databases,Query optimization

论文评审过程：Received 31 October 2017, Revised 18 October 2018, Accepted 22 October 2018, Available online 15 November 2018, Version of Record 21 November 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2018.10.002