Query Containment for Data Integration Systems

Summary: Define “relative containment” to capture query containment relative to the sources available to a data integration system (vs. classical containment). Provide tight complexity/decidability bounds for datalog fragments including conjunctive queries, show decidability even with binding-pattern access restrictions, and give tight extensions when comparisons are allowed. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1196
Venue: PODS
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 7.444226e-05
Overall Rank: 3,174 | 77.95%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
47	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00069691761
3,069	Processing First-Order Queries under Limited Access Patterns	2004	PODS	7.6161135e-05
4,552	View-Based Query Containment	2003	PODS	6.0856349e-05
5,727	Query Processing under GLAV Mappings for Relational and Graph Databases	2013	VLDB	5.3501787e-05
9,740	Containment of Conjunctive Object Meta-Queries	2006	VLDB	4.2895392e-05
12,392	Optimization of Multi-Domain Queries on the Web	2008	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,541	Determining Source Contribution in Integration Systems	2005	PODS	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
82	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00054430106
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044607231
138	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00042322097
150	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00041081536
152	Optimizing Queries across Diverse Data Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00040979242
253	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030517335
288	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00028885849
297	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00028572729
396	An Adaptive Query Execution System for Data Integration*	1999	SIGMOD	0.00024439334
444	Semantic Data Caching and Replacement	1996	VLDB	0.0002303513
533	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.00020767726
578	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00019825485
582	The Complexity of Querying Indefinite Data about Linearly Ordered Domains (Preliminary Version)	1992	PODS	0.00019753367
907	On the Equivalence of Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs	1992	PODS	0.00015417107
937	Queries Independent of Updates	1993	VLDB	0.00015194231
1,579	Constraint Checking with Partial Information	1994	PODS	0.00011273105
2,539	Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics	1997	PODS	8.5759464e-05

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