An Implementation of a Query Language Supporting Path Expressions

Summary: GENISYS offers a relational-like query view with path-based attribute references across related relations. The core is link selectors, enabling compact, cross-relational path queries that are typically verbose in standard query languages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2171
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 13,062 | 9.13%
DOI: -

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1. Sue M. Dintelman
2. A. Timothy Maness

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12	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.0011248121
1,748	LSL: A Link and Selector Language	1976	SIGMOD	0.00010690428

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