Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel

Summary: RIGEL treats relations, views, and tuples as built-in types, enabling tuple-level updates and flexible procedures. Generators fuse relational queries with iteration and enable programmer-defined aggregates, while a data-abstraction facility tightens program–database boundaries and enforces disciplined view use. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2160
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1979
Pagerank: 0.00014379744
Overall Rank: 750 | 94.86%
DOI: 10.1145/582095.582107

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Authors

1. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California Berkeley)
2. Kurt A. Shoens (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rowe_sigmod79,
        title = {{DATA ABSTRACTION, VIEWS AND UPDATES IN RIGEL}},
        author = {Rowe, Lawrence A. and Shoens, Kurt A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582107},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582107},
        year = {1979}
}

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Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
68	The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)	2007	VLDB	0.00038446206
935	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00013100709
1,099	Quel As A Data Type	1984	SIGMOD	0.0001217465
1,662	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010075123
1,737	Molecular Objects, Abstract Data Types, and Data Models: A Framework	1984	VLDB	9.8838348e-05
2,480	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	8.5201824e-05
2,645	Updating Relational Databases through Object-Based Views	1991	SIGMOD	8.303766e-05
2,880	Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time	1986	VLDB	8.0033861e-05
3,735	DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications	1980	SIGMOD	7.1646777e-05
5,159	Overview of an Ada* Compatible Distributed Database Manager	1983	SIGMOD	6.3400003e-05
6,269	From XML view updates to relational view updates: old solutions to a new problem	2004	VLDB	5.9331005e-05
13,229	Conceptual-To-Internal Mappings in Commercial Database Systems	1984	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,255	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
247	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00023302214
1,304	An Architecture For High-Level Language Database Extensions	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011235211

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