Information Organization Using Rufus

Summary: Rufus uses database functions to organize semi-structured data without requiring data to reside in the database. Bridging file-system storage with DB tooling, it enables querying, indexing, and management of semi-structured content while preserving existing applications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2769
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,362 | 1.47%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.171565

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Authors

1. Allen Luniewski (IBM)
2. Peter Schwarz (IBM)
3. Kurt Shoens (IBM)
4. Jim Stamos (IBM)
5. John Thomas (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{luniewski_sigmod93,
        title = {{Information Organization Using Rufus}},
        author = {Luniewski, Allen and Schwarz, Peter and Shoens, Kurt and Stamos, Jim and Thomas, John},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.171565},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.171565},
        year = {1993}
}

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