SQL Open Heterogeneous Data Access

Summary: Open, extensible SQL architecture for accessing external data sources via middleware, enabling DML-based queries that join external and local tables in heterogeneous workflows. Surveys current object-relational systems and companion products, and sketches directions for open, cross-source SQL access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3048
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.3640215e-05
Overall Rank: 5,702 | 60.38%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Berthold Reinwald
2. Hamid Pirahesh

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
867	Query Optimization in the Presence of Limited Access Patterns	1999	SIGMOD	0.00015757737
1,026	WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web*	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014595291

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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