DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases

Summary: DOODLE is a visual declarative language for object-oriented databases, enabling query and display with pictures. Visualizations are stored as data; semantics rely on a deductive OO query language, enabling extensibility and theoretical study. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2633
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 5.363753e-05
Overall Rank: 8,816 | 39.52%
DOI: 10.1145/130283.130299

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Isabel F. Cruz (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cruz_sigmod92,
        title = {{DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases}},
        author = {Cruz, Isabel F.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/130283.130299},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130299},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,239	Towards a Unified Visual Database Access	1993	SIGMOD	5.9425753e-05
14,197	Delaunay: a Database Visualization System	1997	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
300	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00022046803
312	A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion	1987	SIGMOD	0.00021733819
877	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013464822
1,891	A Logic for Object-Oriented Logic Programming (Maier's O-Logic Revisited)	1989	PODS	9.5298123e-05
2,637	A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model	1990	PODS	8.3154765e-05
3,083	C-Logic of Complex Objects	1989	PODS	7.7717632e-05

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