Starburst II: The Extender Strikes Back!

Summary: Extensible relational DB kernel prototype prioritizes generic extensions over fixed-app designs. Extensions include IMS attachments for parent-child joins; Very Long Fields 1.5GB as objects; User-Defined Production Rules; Alert OO Triggers via SQL views. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2616
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,399 | 1.21%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115864

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Authors

1. Guy M. Lohman (IBM)
2. George Lapis (IBM)
3. Tobin Lehman (IBM)
4. Rakesh Agrawal (IBM)
5. Roberta Cochrane (University of Maryland)
6. John McPherson (IBM)
7. C. Mohan (IBM)
8. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
9. Jennifer Widom (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lohman_sigmod91,
        title = {{Starburst II: The Extender Strikes Back!}},
        author = {Lohman, Guy M. and Lapis, George and Lehman, Tobin and Agrawal, Rakesh and Cochrane, Roberta and McPherson, John and Mohan, C. and Pirahesh, Hamid and Widom, Jennifer},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115864},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115864},
        year = {1991}
}

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