LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework

Summary: LINQ unifies objects, relations and XML with a common set of query operators. XLinq and DLinq provide APIs; XML queries use an in-memory XQuery-like model, while DLinq maps relational data to objects and pushes queries to the store. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3856
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 0.00022259549
Overall Rank: 292 | 98.00%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142552

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Authors

1. Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
2. Brian Beckman (Microsoft)
3. Gavin Bierman (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meijer_sigmod06,
        title = {{LINQ: Reconciling Objects, Relations and XML in the .NET Framework}},
        author = {Meijer, Erik and Beckman, Brian and Bierman, Gavin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142552},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142552},
        year = {2006}
}

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1,797	How to Architect a Query Compiler	2016	SIGMOD	9.7368925e-05
2,018	tf.data: A Machine Learning Data Processing Framework	2021	VLDB	9.3001937e-05
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
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3,864	FERRY - Database-Supported Program Execution	2009	SIGMOD	7.0628657e-05
4,847	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	6.4805473e-05
4,907	One SQL to Rule Them All – an Efficient and Syntactically Idiomatic Approach to Management of Streams and Tables	2019	SIGMOD	6.4494002e-05
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6,193	Incremental View Maintenance For Collection Programming	2016	PODS	5.9471978e-05
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12,497	Cross-tier, Label-based Security Enforcement for Web Applications	2009	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,585	Language-Integrated Querying of XML Data in SQL Server	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,615	Demaq: A Foundation for Declarative XML Message Processing	2007	CIDR	5.093636e-05
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