A Data Base Management System Design Philosophy

Summary: Separation of structure representations from data as a DBMS design principle; per-user, interpreted, user-oriented DB machines are driven by structure representations as an instruction stream. Proposes a concrete user DBMS model, outlines a potential implementation, and notes advantages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2001
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 6.2885419e-05
Overall Rank: 4,325 | 69.92%
DOI: -

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1. Thomas J. Cook

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,077	A Dynamic Address Computation Mechanism for Use in Database Management	1978	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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