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An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.

Summary: Implements GEM on INGRES, extending relational model with surrogates, aggregation/generalization, nulls, and multi-valued attributes. Back-end IDM 500 provides transactions, concurrency, and recovery, enabling semantic constructs on a relational processor. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2255
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1984
Pagerank
7.9403653e-05
Overall Rank
2,901 | 79.82%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
68 The Database Language GEM 1983 SIGMOD 0.00060795269
632 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00018923134
2,663 Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis 1987 SIGMOD 8.3512771e-05
3,243 Mapping a Semantic Database Model to the Relational Model 1987 SIGMOD 7.3294351e-05
4,319 SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model 1988 SIGMOD 6.2885419e-05
5,210 ARIEL -- A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs 1985 VLDB 5.6292073e-05
6,197 O-O, What Have They Done to DB2? 1999 VLDB 5.1614115e-05
7,466 Managing Complex Objects in an Extensible Relational DBMS 1989 VLDB 4.7219717e-05
12,982 A Database Design for Musical Information 1987 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-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
68 The Database Language GEM 1983 SIGMOD 0.00060795269
96 A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications 1978 SIGMOD 0.00050819255
528 Database Relations with Null Values (Extended Abstract) 1982 PODS 0.0002084153
1,068 Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model 1982 VLDB 0.00014323478
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