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: 2002
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 6.0346122e-05
Overall Rank: 6,152 | 57.25%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thomas J. Cook

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,090	A Dynamic Address Computation Mechanism for Use in Database Management	1978	SIGMOD	5.1725247e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

Semantically Similar Papers

Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,240	An Object-Oriented Database System for Engineering Applications	1987	SIGMOD	6.006384e-05
4,006	An Operational Approach To Data Bases	1982	PODS	7.0331038e-05
6,043	A Pragmatic Approach to Structured Database Design	1983	VLDB	6.058016e-05
12,961	Concepts for a Database System Compiler	1988	PODS	5.1725247e-05
791	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00014033571
7,715	Formalization of Database Systems - and a Formal Definition of IMS	1982	VLDB	5.619383e-05
2,976	A Method for Describing Information Required by the Database Design Process	1976	SIGMOD	7.9544786e-05
13,041	Conceptual-To-Internal Mappings in Commercial Database Systems	1984	PODS	5.1725247e-05
2,218	On The Algebraic Specification Of Databases	1982	VLDB	9.0006835e-05
9,186	Forms Approach to Requirements Specification for Database Design	1983	SIGMOD	5.371468e-05