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Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction
Summary: Argues RDBMSs must elevate the entity-relationship (ER) abstraction beyond object-relational to restore logical data independence and enable higher-level innovation instead of acting as mere storage. Presents ErbiumDB prototype exploring ER-first internals and key research challenges: mapping, optimization, evolution, and tooling.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 541
- Venue
- CIDR
- Year
- 2025
- Pagerank
- 5.5154502e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,419 | 62.34%
- DOI
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank |
Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 7 |
Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning |
1979 |
SIGMOD |
0.0015464728 |
| 20 |
C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS |
2005 |
VLDB |
0.00086163998 |
| 68 |
The Database Language GEM |
1983 |
SIGMOD |
0.00060817676 |
| 349 |
The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications |
1978 |
SIGMOD |
0.00026431755 |
| 447 |
Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System |
2002 |
SIGMOD |
0.00022927245 |
| 604 |
A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS |
1988 |
SIGMOD |
0.00019333115 |
| 732 |
An Entity-based Database User Interface |
1980 |
SIGMOD |
0.00017434383 |
| 1,565 |
Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00011336478 |
| 1,677 |
Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench |
2008 |
VLDB |
0.00010929631 |
| 1,782 |
PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs |
2023 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010557905 |
| 2,128 |
SQLGraph: An Efficient Relational-Based Property Graph Store |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
9.4804485e-05 |
| 2,252 |
Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases |
2007 |
SIGMOD |
9.1887678e-05 |
| 3,517 |
Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity |
2015 |
SIGMOD |
7.0183022e-05 |
| 5,011 |
SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL |
2024 |
VLDB |
5.7544221e-05 |
| 5,311 |
A Critique of Modern SQL And A Proposal Towards A Simple and Expressive Query Language |
2024 |
CIDR |
5.5712968e-05 |
| 6,661 |
Scalable Querying of Nested Data |
2021 |
VLDB |
4.9663934e-05 |
| 7,144 |
Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM) |
2008 |
SIGMOD |
4.8143703e-05 |
| 7,672 |
Query Containment in Entity SQL (Extended Abstract) |
2013 |
SIGMOD |
4.6773488e-05 |
| 7,886 |
BullFrog: Online Schema Evolution via Lazy Evaluation |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
4.6219553e-05 |
| 9,456 |
ADO.NET Entity Framework: Raising the Level of Abstraction in Data Programming |
2007 |
SIGMOD |
4.3353747e-05 |
| 9,674 |
Sypse: Privacy-first Data Management through Pseudonymization and Partitioning |
2021 |
CIDR |
4.3014213e-05 |
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