... Next: Data Archive System Up: Archives and Databases Previous: Designing an Open . ... We describe here an implementation of a prototype object-oriented database, distributed in a client-server framework that is capable of both handling these volumes of data and facilitating geometric queries in an efficient manner. ... Our proposed solution is to store the data in an object-oriented database using a multidimensional indexing scheme: the k-d tree. ... Figure: The data flow model. ...