OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages

Summary: Functional paradigm for querying abstract object collections; introduces OFL and a graph-traversal execution model. Hybrid set-oriented and pipelined traversals with memoization; recursive object algebra enabling OQL-like compilation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2788
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 4.6005069e-05
Overall Rank: 8,037 | 44.09%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,032	Rule Languages and Internal Algebras for Rule-Based Optimizers	1996	SIGMOD	6.5117637e-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
77	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00057043861
271	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00029452935
603	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00019351031
724	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00017536758
1,199	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013354204
1,309	Query Processing in Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	SIGMOD	0.00012660929
1,466	Experiences Building the Open OODB Query Optimizer	1993	SIGMOD	0.00011857675
1,493	Advanced Query Processing in Object Bases Using Access Support Relations	1990	VLDB	0.00011694373
1,698	Query Processing in the ObjectStore Database System	1992	SIGMOD	0.00010869294
1,719	Implementation Techniques of Complex Objects	1986	VLDB	0.00010787268
2,105	A Performance Evaluation of Pointer-Based Joins	1990	SIGMOD	9.5347454e-05
6,225	Access to Objects by Path Expressions and Rules	1994	VLDB	5.1495388e-05
6,474	Indexing Multiple Sets	1994	VLDB	5.0500524e-05
7,550	The hcC-tree: An Efficient Index Structure For Object Oriented Databases	1994	VLDB	4.713674e-05
9,084	From Nested-Loop to Join Queries in OODB	1994	VLDB	4.3996109e-05

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