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)
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Authors
- 1. Peter Buneman (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Robert E. Frankel (University of Pennsylvania)
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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| 421 | The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00018742219 |
| 3,633 | IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report) | 1984 | PODS | 7.2366114e-05 |
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