Towards a Unified Visual Database Access

Summary: Introduces VQL, a unified visual query language with core constructs and a restricted universal quantifier, organized around a windows-based hierarchy. Provides formal semantics, safety, and complexity analysis, showing a minimal primitive set can encode nesting and core operations across relational, nested, and object-oriented models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2656
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 6.2885419e-05
Overall Rank: 4,315 | 69.99%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,776	Towards an ODMG-Compliant Visual Object Query Language	1997	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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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
12	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.0011248121
271	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00029452935
352	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00026299604
669	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00018430212
2,317	Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference	1989	SIGMOD	9.0409573e-05
2,411	G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion	1985	VLDB	8.8758658e-05
3,738	Towards a Real Horn Clause Language	1988	VLDB	6.8032471e-05
4,337	LLO: An Object-Oriented Deductive Language with Methods and Method Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	6.2790019e-05
8,453	DOODLE: A Visual Language for Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	4.5082358e-05
8,454	On the power of Rule-Based Languages with Sets	1991	PODS	4.5082358e-05

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