Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases

Summary: Formal framework for semantics and expressiveness of active-database trigger languages. Characterizes relative expressive power of abstract trigger languages and applies findings to ARDL, HiPAC, Postgres, Starburst, and Sybase, clarifying semantics and design trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1061
Venue: PODS
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 6.2908453e-05
Overall Rank: 5,270 | 63.85%
DOI: 10.1145/212433.220203

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Authors

1. Philippe Picouet (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications)
2. Victor Vianu (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{picouet_pods95,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '95},
        title = {{Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.220203},
        doi = {10.1145/212433.220203},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Picouet, Philippe and Vianu, Victor},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,159	Relational Transducers for Electronic Commerce	1998	PODS	0.00011898742
2,653	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.2898925e-05
8,128	Decidability and Undecidability Results for the Termination Problem of Active Database Rules	1998	PODS	5.4825743e-05
12,953	Referential Actions as Logical Rules	1997	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
146	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00029540467
197	The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System*	1989	SIGMOD	0.00025700767
258	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00023131981
421	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018742219
598	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015910777
716	Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00014652696
1,329	Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance	1990	VLDB	0.00011140837
1,590	Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst	1991	VLDB	0.00010257581
2,492	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.5073897e-05
3,130	Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases	1991	VLDB	7.7250012e-05
3,480	Integrating Object-Oriented Data Modeling with a Rule-Based Programming Paradigm	1990	SIGMOD	7.3771957e-05
3,829	Behavior of Database Production Rules: Termination, Confluence, and Observable Determinism	1992	SIGMOD	7.088463e-05
3,887	Enforcing Inclusion Dependencies and Referential Integrity	1988	VLDB	7.0455552e-05
4,263	Explicit Control of Logic Programs Through Rule Algebra	1988	PODS	6.7942527e-05
5,762	Implementing High Level Active Rules on top of a Relational DBMS	1992	VLDB	6.0957273e-05

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