Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries
Summary: Critical metatheory examining database theory's fitness criteria, historical influence on other CS fields and products, and whether the relational model was a unique paradigm shift. Advocates evaluating theory via refutable "hard facts", valuing negative results and the theory–practice interplay. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Christos H. Papadimitriou (University of California San Diego)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{papadimitriou_pods95,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '95},
title = {{Database Metatheory: Asking the Big Queries}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.212436},
doi = {10.1145/212433.212436},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Papadimitriou, Christos H.},
year = {1995}
}
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