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Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases
Summary: Declarative mappings between apps and databases compile into bidirectional views powering transformation engine. Queries answered and updates translated via view maintenance; handles constraint rewriting and nonrelational constructs; deployed commercially.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Paper ID
3935
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2007
Pagerank
8.5480977e-05
Overall Rank
2,464 | 83.10%
DOI
10.1145/1247480.1247532
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{melnik_sigmod07,
title = {{Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases}},
author = {Melnik, Sergey and Adya, Atul and Bernstein, Philip A.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247532},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247532},
year = {2007}
}
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