An Access Path Model for Physical Database Design

Summary: Access Path Model unifies logical and physical design in a heterogeneous DB environment; separates what (access-path properties) from how (implementation). Algorithms map generic access-path specs to storage structures and realize a CODASYL 76 DBTG schema. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2116
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 5.2415551e-05
Overall Rank: 6,035 | 58.02%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. R. H. Katz
2. E. Wong

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,066	Physical Design of Network Model Databases Using the Property of Separability	1982	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.0011248121
120	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00045646715

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