FQL - A Functional Query Language (a preliminary report)

Summary: FQL is an applicative, Backus-inspired functional query language for expressing complex database queries. Implemented atop CODASYL with a general data model, it aims portability to other DBMSs; the paper presents examples and an implementation outline. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2095
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1979
Pagerank: 7.1794877e-05
Overall Rank: 3,357 | 76.65%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Peter Buneman
2. Robert E. Frankel

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
309	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00028136165
3,383	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.1595023e-05

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