FLASH: A Language-Independent, Portable File Access System

Summary: FLASH is a language-independent, portable file access system for databases, providing record-level access with multiple indexed symbolic keys. Implemented in Pascal with DEC System 20 MACRO, it runs on diverse hardware, supports concurrent multi-user access, and emphasizes reliability via block transfers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2192
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 5.4838627e-05
Overall Rank: 8,116 | 44.32%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582274

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Authors

1. James E. Allchin (Stanford University)
2. Arthur M. Keller (Stanford University)
3. Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{allchin_sigmod80,
        title = {{FLASH: A Language-Independent, Portable File Access System}},
        author = {Allchin, James E. and Keller, Arthur M. and Wiederhold, Gio},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582274},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582274},
        year = {1980}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,061	The Starburst Long Field Manager	1989	VLDB	7.8045347e-05

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