Glue-Nail: A Deductive Database System

Summary: Glue-Nail introduces Glue, a procedural extension for deductive databases that complements NAIL! to realize system tasks within a unified framework. Supports pseudo-Ho programming, non-1NF attributes, and NAIL! compiled to Glue for a full application. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2601
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 7.2861437e-05
Overall Rank: 3,583 | 75.42%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115840

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Geoffrey Phipps (Stanford University)
2. Marcia A. Derr (AT&T; Stanford University)
3. Kenneth A. Ross (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{phipps_sigmod91,
        title = {{Glue-Nail: A Deductive Database System}},
        author = {Phipps, Geoffrey and Derr, Marcia A. and Ross, Kenneth A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115840},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115840},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,928	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	9.4692029e-05
2,194	CORAL—Control, Relations and Logic	1992	VLDB	8.9724143e-05
3,430	Design and Implementation of the Glue-Nail Database System	1993	SIGMOD	7.4202634e-05
4,975	Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System	1993	SIGMOD	6.41738e-05
5,762	Implementing High Level Active Rules on top of a Relational DBMS	1992	VLDB	6.0957273e-05
8,561	Coral++: Adding Object-Orientation to a Logic Database Language	1993	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
13,041	An Effective Deductive Object-Oriented Database Through Language Integration	1994	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,092	Updates in a Rule-Based Language for Objects	1992	VLDB	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

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