Rule Condition Testing and Action Execution in Ariel

Summary: Ariel tightly couples a built-in rule system to the relational query/update engine of an active DBMS. Rule testing uses a discrimination network and A-TREAT with memory nodes for efficient checks; actions bind data and execute via the query processor. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2629
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 9.3096289e-05
Overall Rank: 2,009 | 86.22%
DOI: 10.1145/130283.130295

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eric N. Hanson (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hanson_sigmod92,
        title = {{Rule Condition Testing and Action Execution in Ariel}},
        author = {Hanson, Eric N.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/130283.130295},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130295},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
736	Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014508563
3,414	Managing Expressions as Data in Relational Database Systems	2003	CIDR	7.4313224e-05
3,528	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.3411417e-05
4,040	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.9423365e-05
4,441	Optimization of Continuous Queries with Shared Expensive Filters	2007	PODS	6.7021508e-05
5,074	An Algebraic Approach to Rule Analysis in Expert Database Systems	1994	VLDB	6.3746118e-05
5,896	NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System	1994	VLDB	6.0486927e-05
6,136	Eliminating Costly Redundant Computations from SQL Trigger Executions	1997	SIGMOD	5.9644839e-05
6,364	An Adaptive Algorithm for Incremental Evaluation of Production Rules in Databases	1993	VLDB	5.8996672e-05
12,994	Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach	1995	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,031	Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	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
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
576	Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS	1991	VLDB	0.00016238156
935	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00013100709
1,590	Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst	1991	VLDB	0.00010257581
2,495	A Predicate Matching Algorithm for Database Rule Systems	1990	SIGMOD	8.5034389e-05

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