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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
2063
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1975
Pagerank
5.9425753e-05
Overall Rank
6,247 | 57.15%
DOI
10.1145/500080.500083

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cook_sigmod75,
        title = {{A Data Base Management System Design Philosophy}},
        author = {Cook, Thomas J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '75},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/500080.500083},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/500080.500083},
        year = {1975}
}

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