Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring
Summary: Proposes a tabular database model that generalizes relational, nested-relational and complex-object tables to capture a broad class of natural real-world table layouts. Introduces tabular algebra, proves completeness for a very general class of transformations, embeds diverse languages and positions the model as a theoretical foundation for OLAP. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Marc Gyssens (University of Limburg)
- 2. Laks V.S. Lakshmanan (Concordia University)
- 3. Iyer N. Subramanian (Concordia University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gyssens_pods96,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '96},
title = {{Tables As a Paradigm for Querying and Restructuring}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/237661.237688},
doi = {10.1145/237661.237688},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Gyssens, Marc and Lakshmanan, Laks V.S. and Subramanian, Iyer N.},
year = {1996}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,558 | SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00010366362 |
| 1,609 | Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective | 1997 | PODS | 0.00010225236 |
| 3,889 | On Efficiently Implementing SchemaSQL on a SQL Database System | 1999 | VLDB | 7.0440224e-05 |
| 4,166 | A Foundation for Multi-Dimensional Databases | 1997 | VLDB | 6.8583043e-05 |
| 4,181 | Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas | 2003 | VLDB | 6.848299e-05 |
| 5,193 | Sampling Algorithms in a Stream Operator | 2005 | SIGMOD | 6.3238562e-05 |
| 8,630 | Extending Relational Query Optimization to Dynamic Schemas for Information Integration in Multidatabases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 5.3967753e-05 |
| 12,935 | nD-SQL: A Multi-dimensional Language for Interoperability and OLAP | 1998 | VLDB | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 355 | Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00020351749 |
| 2,637 | A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model | 1990 | PODS | 8.3154765e-05 |
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