Most common database management systems represent information in a simple record-
based format. Semantic modeling provides richer data structuring capabilities for database …

Traditionally, the interface between a programming language and a database has either
been through a set of relatively low-level subroutine calls, or it has required some form of …

This database theory book provides a focused presentation of the core material on relational
databases, and presents a number of advanced topics in a unified framework. Some of the …

This paper presents the preliminary design of a new database management system, called
POSTGRES, that is the successor to the INGRES relational database system. The main …

In previous papers [SC05, SBC+ 07], some of us predicted the end of" one size fits all" as a
commercial relational DBMS paradigm. These papers presented reasons and experimental …

The last 25 years of commercial DBMS development can be summed up in a single phrase:"
One size fits all". This phrase refers to the fact that the traditional DBMS architecture …

We propose a novel approach to the view-update problem for tree-structured data: a domain-
specific programming language in which all expressions denote bidirectional …

An approach to the coordinated sharing and interchange of computerized information is
described emphasizing partial, controlled sharing among autonomous databases. Office …

Most relational database systems provide a facility for supporting user views. Permitting this
level of abstraction has the danger, however, that update requests issued by a user within …

DAPLEX is a database language which incorporates: a formulation of data in terms of
entities; a functional representation for both actual and virtual data relationships; a rich …