Hypothetical Data Bases As Views

Summary: Hypothetical data bases can be supported by modest extensions to conventional view mechanisms. This approach promises efficiency and argues for centralizing hypothetical data bases in the DBMS, enabling reasoning about alternative data states and enhanced query support. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2223
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 9.9840256e-05
Overall Rank: 1,695 | 88.38%
DOI: 10.1145/582318.582352

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod81,
        title = {{HYPOTHETICAL DATA BASES AS VIEWS}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582352},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582352},
        year = {1981}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
283	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00022377907
387	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019442332
1,191	Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases	1986	SIGMOD	0.00011741398
2,705	An Implementation of Hypothetical Relations	1983	VLDB	8.2304282e-05
5,550	Recovery Architectures for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1985	SIGMOD	6.178647e-05
7,343	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.6383799e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
59	Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases	1976	SIGMOD	0.00040060625
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
4,233	Embedding Expert Knowledge and Hypothetical Data Bases into a Data Base System	1980	SIGMOD	6.8175725e-05

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