Quel As A Data Type

Summary: Treats query-language commands as an abstract data type (ADT) in a DBMS, enabling command-based objects alongside built-in types. Demonstrates a QUEL ADT for commands and proposes three extensions to QUEL to raise expressive power. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2310
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.0001217465
Overall Rank: 1,099 | 92.47%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602287

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Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Erika Anderson (University of California Berkeley)
3. Eric Hanson (University of California Berkeley)
4. Brad Rubenstein (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod84,
        title = {{QUEL AS A DATA TYPE}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Anderson, Erika and Hanson, Eric and Rubenstein, Brad},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602287},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602287},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
116	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.0003221055
1,118	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00012104924
2,971	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.9120946e-05
3,414	Managing Expressions as Data in Relational Database Systems	2003	CIDR	7.4313224e-05
4,146	Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.8732593e-05
4,310	On Semantic Reefs and Efficient Processing of Correlation Queries with Aggregates	1985	VLDB	6.7677766e-05
4,724	Processing Queries Against Database Procedures: A Performance Analysis	1988	SIGMOD	6.5378287e-05
6,317	An Object-Oriented Database System for Engineering Applications	1987	SIGMOD	5.915075e-05
7,196	Typed Query Languages for Databases Containing Queries	1998	PODS	5.6764289e-05
7,270	A Crash Course on Database Queries	2007	PODS	5.6595955e-05
7,793	Reflective programming in the relational algebra (extended abstract)	1993	PODS	5.5430288e-05
12,868	HyperQueries: Dynamic Distributed Query Processing on the Internet	2001	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,165	Rapid Application Prototyping: The PROQUEL Language	1988	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,198	A Rule-Based Object/Task Modelling Approach	1986	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
92	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034759032
181	On Extending the Functions of a Relational Database System	1982	SIGMOD	0.00026752689
750	Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014379744
1,078	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012263786
4,233	Embedding Expert Knowledge and Hypothetical Data Bases into a Data Base System	1980	SIGMOD	6.8175725e-05

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