Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems

Summary: Procedures as first-class objects in an extended relational DBMS, focusing on query processing efficiency. Proposes a variant INGRES decomposition, caching of procedure results with replacement/validation, and Partial Indexing for cached data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2351
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 7.1867845e-05
Overall Rank: 3,350 | 76.72%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Timos K. Sellis

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
939	Performance Enhancement Through Replication in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.000151516
1,416	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	0.00012097722
4,074	Processing Queries Against Database Procedures: A Performance Analysis	1988	SIGMOD	6.4711064e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071946446
55	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00065687017
68	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00060817676
69	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00060388875
79	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00056010993
86	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.0005348843
89	Common Expression Analysis in Database Applications	1982	SIGMOD	0.00052299473
128	An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems	1985	VLDB	0.00044501642
154	An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00040747653
187	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00035990623
406	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00023989944
413	Computing Queries from Derived Relations	1985	VLDB	0.00023802724
580	Quel As A Data Type	1984	SIGMOD	0.00019775101
637	The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects	1985	VLDB	0.00018812264
1,078	On The Computation Of The Transitive Closure Of Relational Operators	1986	VLDB	0.00014223265
3,410	Preliminary Design of ADMS+/-: A Workstation-Mainframe Integrated Architecture for Database Management Systems	1986	VLDB	7.1228795e-05

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