Data Base Standardization: A Status Report

Summary: Status report of SPARC/ANSI DBMS standardization; outlines requirements for an effective DBMS and notes no current system satisfies them. Proposes a mechanism to accommodate multiple data models (relational, hierarchical, network) and a staged standards plan with a 1975 completion target. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2078
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
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Overall Rank: 14,623 | 0.02%
DOI: 10.1145/500080.500101

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1. Thomas B. Steel, Jr. (Equitable Life Assurance Society)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{jr_sigmod75,
        title = {{DATA BASE STANDARDIZATION: A STATUS REPORT}},
        author = {Thomas B. Steel, Jr.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '75},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/500080.500101},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/500080.500101},
        year = {1975}
}

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