Typed Query Languages for Databases Containing Queries
Summary: Introduces the Relational Meta Algebra, a statically typed extension of relational algebra that treats stored relational-algebra expressions as first-class values to enable typed meta-programming and modeling of procedural data in databases. Analyzes typing trade-offs, proves equivalence to a first-order calculus, and establishes the formalism's global expressive power and non-redundancy while characterizing limitations of a strict typing discipline for meta data. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Frank Neven (Limburgs Universitair Centrum)
- 2. Jan Van den Bussche (Limburgs Universitair Centrum)
- 3. Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
- 4. Gottfried Vossen (University of Munster)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{neven_pods98,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '98},
title = {{Typed Query Languages for Databases Containing Queries}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/275487.275509},
doi = {10.1145/275487.275509},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Neven, Frank and Van den Bussche, Jan and Van Gucht, Dirk and Vossen, Gottfried},
year = {1998}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,095 | Intensional Associations Between Data and Metadata | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.9065838e-05 |
| 7,270 | A Crash Course on Database Queries | 2007 | PODS | 5.6595955e-05 |
| 7,654 | Positive Higher-Order Queries | 2010 | PODS | 5.5746273e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,099 | Quel As A Data Type | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.0001217465 |
| 1,473 | Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1994 | PODS | 0.0001066845 |
| 1,928 | Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus | 1992 | PODS | 9.4692029e-05 |
| 7,260 | On the Power of Algebras with Recursion | 1993 | SIGMOD | 5.6612789e-05 |
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