Secure and Portable Database Extensibility

Summary: Evaluates Java-based UDFs in the PREDATOR O/RDBMS, detailing security, efficiency, and portability tradeoffs. Empirical results indicate Java UDFs can match native performance, but integrating them introduces design and security challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3092
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 6.2693036e-05
Overall Rank: 5,313 | 63.55%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276339

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Godfrey (Cornell University)
2. Tobias Mayr (Cornell University)
3. Praveen Seshadri (Cornell University)
4. Thorsten von Eicken (Cornell University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{godfrey_sigmod98,
        title = {{Secure and Portable Database Extensibility}},
        author = {Godfrey, Michael and Mayr, Tobias and Seshadri, Praveen and von Eicken, Thorsten},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276339},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276339},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,978	Hosting the .NET Runtime in Microsoft SQL Server	2004	SIGMOD	5.7303405e-05
7,966	Client-Site Query Extensions	1999	SIGMOD	5.5173328e-05
9,270	MOCHA: A Self-Extensible Database Middleware System for Distributed Data Sources	2000	SIGMOD	5.2946605e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,816	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	9.6840978e-05
2,336	Performance Tradeoffs for Client-Server Query Processing	1996	SIGMOD	8.7302865e-05
2,528	The Case for Enhanced Abstract Data Types	1997	VLDB	8.4620669e-05

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