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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
2157
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1979
Pagerank
6.7819254e-05
Overall Rank
4,284 | 70.61%
DOI
10.1145/582095.582104

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{buneman_sigmod79,
        title = {{FQL - A Functional Query Language (a preliminary report)}},
        author = {Buneman, Peter and Frankel, Robert E.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582104},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582104},
        year = {1979}
}

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