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Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language
Summary: Argues for ARQL—a semantics‑first metalanguage that separates a relational core (intent) from modalities and conventions to expose and compare relational patterns for human and LLM workflows. Presents ARC (a TRC generalization) with textual, machine‑friendly ALT, and higraph modalities as a Rosetta Stone and intermediate for NL2SQL and automated query validation.
(summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 588
- Venue
- CIDR
- Year
- 2026
- Pagerank
- 4.1945683e-05
- Overall Rank
- 9,986 | 30.53%
- DOI
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| 583 |
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| 639 |
Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation |
2001 |
SIGMOD |
0.00018791492 |
| 2,988 |
NL2SQL is a solved problem... Not! |
2024 |
CIDR |
7.7761714e-05 |
| 5,012 |
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2024 |
VLDB |
5.7599595e-05 |
| 5,307 |
A Critique of Modern SQL And A Proposal Towards A Simple and Expressive Query Language |
2024 |
CIDR |
5.5766594e-05 |
| 5,411 |
Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction |
2025 |
CIDR |
5.5207515e-05 |
| 5,452 |
QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster |
2020 |
SIGMOD |
5.4999397e-05 |
| 5,962 |
Beyond Equi-joins: Ranking, Enumeration and Factorization |
2021 |
VLDB |
5.2536266e-05 |
| 6,303 |
Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
5.1214271e-05 |
| 6,781 |
SQL Nulls and Two-Valued Logic |
2023 |
PODS |
4.927459e-05 |
| 8,111 |
Databases will Visualize Queries too* |
2011 |
VLDB |
4.5842786e-05 |
| 8,404 |
On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages |
2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.5224126e-05 |
| 9,031 |
Extending SQL to Return a Subdatabase |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.4039656e-05 |
| 10,133 |
A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations |
2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,271 |
A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.1945683e-05 |
| 13,108 |
PatternVis: A Tool for Relational Pattern Visualization |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
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