FLASH: A Language-Independent, Portable File Access System

Summary: FLASH is a language-independent, portable file access system for databases, providing record-level access with multiple indexed symbolic keys. Implemented in Pascal with DEC System 20 MACRO, it runs on diverse hardware, supports concurrent multi-user access, and emphasizes reliability via block transfers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2131
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 4.7853404e-05
Overall Rank: 7,245 | 49.65%
DOI: -

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2,114	The Starburst Long Field Manager	1989	VLDB	9.5200665e-05

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