A Decomposition Storage Model

Summary: Examines a decomposition storage model: binary surrogate-attribute relations for community views, vs. conventional n-ary storage. Rather than claim superiority, compares across dimensions: simplicity, generality, storage, updates, retrieval, to map trade-offs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2341
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 0.00032338948
Overall Rank: 115 | 99.22%
DOI: 10.1145/318898.318923

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Authors

1. George P Copeland (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Setrag N Khoshafian (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{copeland_sigmod85,
        title = {{A Decomposition Storage Model}},
        author = {Copeland, George P and Khoshafian, Setrag N},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '85},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/318898.318923},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318898.318923},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,618	Maitri: A Format-Independent Framework for Managing Large Scale Scientific Data	2007	CIDR	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
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299
59	Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases	1976	SIGMOD	0.00040060625
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
1,385	Characteristics of Scientific Databases	1984	VLDB	0.00010956506
2,082	A Dynamic Clustering Technique For Physical Database Design	1980	SIGMOD	9.201869e-05

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