A Database Interface for File Update

Summary: Updates over file-stored data via a high-level database update language using structuring schemas that expose a DB view over files. Proposes inverse mappings, shows that materialize-and-unparse is inefficient and lossy, and offers schema constraints plus algorithms to propagate updates without full reconstruction. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2878
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 7.281669e-05
Overall Rank: 3,588 | 75.39%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223854

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA)
2. Sophie Cluet (INRIA)
3. Tova Milo (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{abiteboul_sigmod95,
        title = {{A Database Interface for File Update}},
        author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Cluet, Sophie and Milo, Tova},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223854},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223854},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
454	Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation	1998	VLDB	0.00018133578
1,496	Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010569165
2,708	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.2272626e-05
6,319	Expressiveness of Structured Document Query Languages Based on Attribute Grammars (extended abstract)	1998	PODS	5.9150511e-05

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
571	From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities	1994	SIGMOD	0.0001632382
979	Algorithms for Translating View Updates to Database Updates for Views Involving Selections, Projections, and Joins	1985	PODS	0.00012850156
1,001	Querying and Updating the File	1993	VLDB	0.00012714843
1,075	Updates Of Relational Views	1983	PODS	0.00012294896
2,574	The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data	1993	VLDB	8.3995947e-05
2,588	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.3742403e-05

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