Computing Joins Of Relations

Summary: Examines efficient storage, access, and manipulation of relations, with emphasis on practical join computation. Introduces join algorithms and evaluates them by storage use and computing time, establishing a storage-time tradeoff framework for relational joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2068
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 0.00010649695
Overall Rank: 1,479 | 89.86%
DOI: 10.1145/500080.500089

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Leo R. Gotlieb (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gotlieb_sigmod75,
        title = {{COMPUTING JOINS OF RELATIONS}},
        author = {Gotlieb, Leo R.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '75},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/500080.500089},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/500080.500089},
        year = {1975}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
320	Evaluation of Database Access Paths	1978	SIGMOD	0.00021373172
2,845	A New Way to Compute the Product and Join of Relations	1980	SIGMOD	8.060155e-05
2,955	Query Processing Strategies in the PASCAL/R Relational Database Management System	1982	SIGMOD	7.9213835e-05
3,901	A System for Semantic Query Optimization	1987	SIGMOD	7.0317421e-05
7,120	An Algorithm For Servicing Multi-Relational Queries	1977	SIGMOD	5.6970022e-05
13,283	Database Cost Analysis: a Top-Down Approach	1977	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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