A Data Management Extension Architecture

Summary: Proposes a modular extension architecture for DBMSs enabling plug-in data management extensions via storage methods and attachments. Defines generic operation sets and coordination services to add new storage or attachment types, with implementation notes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2345
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 0.00011978473
Overall Rank: 1,436 | 90.03%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
220	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00033312045
309	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00028195213
465	Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS	1991	VLDB	0.00022461154
2,114	The Starburst Long Field Manager	1989	VLDB	9.5200665e-05
2,200	Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric Applications	1989	VLDB	9.3055387e-05
2,466	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.734134e-05
2,727	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	8.2234566e-05
2,742	Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System	1992	VLDB	8.1946686e-05
3,081	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.5993458e-05
3,837	Enforcing Inclusion Dependencies And Referential Integrity	1988	VLDB	6.7124429e-05
4,093	Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer	1988	VLDB	6.4521318e-05
4,222	PRIMA - a DBMS Prototype Supporting Engineering Applications	1987	VLDB	6.3414004e-05
4,820	An Incremental Join Attachment for Starburst	1990	VLDB	5.8924654e-05
4,990	Managing Temporal Financial Data in an Extensible Database	1993	VLDB	5.7763488e-05
6,353	A Signature Access Method for the Starburst Database System	1989	VLDB	5.0949586e-05
6,465	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.0464278e-05
12,869	Using the Co-existence Approach to Achieve Combined Functionality of Object-Oriented and Relational Systems	1993	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,924	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.0032118946
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071946446
187	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00035990623

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