Text Dominated Databases, Theory Practice and Experience

Summary: Advocates treating large, structured text corpora as primary databases—text DBs are hierarchical/grammar-described, often append‑only, and demand search/edit primitives and query models distinct from relational ones. Uses OED experience to evaluate SGML, SFQL mappings, and integration challenges for optimization, consistency and DBMS transparency. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1040
Venue: PODS
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.0689272e-05
Overall Rank: 6,420 | 55.34%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Gaston H. Gonnet

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,919	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010094755
6,129	Sequences, Datalog and Transducers	1995	PODS	5.1974539e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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