Finitely Representable Databases
Summary: Defines infinite yet finitely representable databases via constraint-based decidable FO theories, motivated by spatial applications. Proves this class violates core classical and finite-model-theory results (compactness, completeness, locality, 0/1-laws), undermining tools for relational-calculus query definability. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Stephane Grumbach (INRIA)
- 2. Jianwen Su (University of California Santa Barbara)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{grumbach_pods94,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '94},
title = {{Finitely Representable Databases}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182591.182654},
doi = {10.1145/182591.182654},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Grumbach, Stephane and Su, Jianwen},
year = {1994}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 889 | Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013398105 |
| 1,473 | Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1994 | PODS | 0.0001066845 |
| 1,890 | Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Languages | 1996 | PODS | 9.5330753e-05 |
| 3,695 | Topological Queries in Spatial Databases | 1996 | PODS | 7.1911058e-05 |
| 4,013 | Linear vs. Order Constraint Queries Over Rational Databases (Extended Abstract) | 1996 | PODS | 6.9565842e-05 |
| 5,523 | Dense-Order Constraint Databases (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | PODS | 6.1870017e-05 |
| 5,736 | On the Containment and Equivalence of Database Queries with Linear Constraints* (Extended Abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 6.1050534e-05 |
| 5,948 | Measuring Infinite Relations (Extended Abstract) | 1995 | PODS | 6.0317886e-05 |
| 8,559 | Towards Practical Constraint Databases (Extended Abstract) | 1996 | PODS | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 12,988 | Space-Bounded FOIES | 1995 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 413 | Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata | 1984 | PODS | 0.00018894294 |
| 889 | Constraint Programming and Database Languages: A Tutorial | 1995 | PODS | 0.00013398105 |
| 2,003 | Indexing for Data Models with Constraints and Classes (Extended Abstract) | 1993 | PODS | 9.3214272e-05 |
| 4,152 | Completeness Results for Recursive Data Bases | 1993 | PODS | 6.8701678e-05 |
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