Modelling Summary Data

Summary: Extends the relational model with summary data to enable flexible specification of aggregate functions. STRAND enables retrieval with aggregates without framing queries as aggregation, illustrated by proposal tracking and socio-demographic databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2209
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 9.1577906e-05
Overall Rank: 2,105 | 85.56%
DOI: 10.1145/582318.582333

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Rowland R Johnson (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{johnson_sigmod81,
        title = {{Modelling Summary Data}},
        author = {Johnson, Rowland R},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582333},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582333},
        year = {1981}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
249	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00023275528
1,412	GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration	1982	VLDB	0.00010849986
2,399	Performance Evaluation of the Statistical Aggregation by Categorization in the SM3 System	1984	SIGMOD	8.6307399e-05
13,153	The derivation problem for summary data	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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