The Conceptual Schema Controversy
Summary: Historical survey of database management debates from 1968 to the SPARC-era introduction of the conceptual schema (1974). Analyzes enduring forks—self-contained versus host language, relational versus network—and argues for crystallizing core disagreements to enable cross-model compromises across standards bodies. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. T. William Olle (T. William Olle Associates Limited)
- 2. Manilal Daya (Honeywell)
- 3. Eckhard Falkenberg (Siemens)
- 4. Beatrice Yormark (Interactive Systems Corporation)
- 5. Robert W. Taylor (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{olle_sigmod78,
title = {{The Conceptual Schema Controversy}},
author = {Olle, T. William and Daya, Manilal and Falkenberg, Eckhard and Yormark, Beatrice and Taylor, Robert W.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/509252.509276},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509276},
year = {1978}
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