A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model

Summary: Implements a universal-relation view on a network-model DB by mapping a “representative instance” derived from a well-designed relational schema, eschewing the universal-instance assumption and using a modified foreign-key constraint to handle incompleteness. Provides two algorithms to translate relational queries into network application programs—one for select/project over the universal relation and one that adds joins—and discusses optimization techniques for both translations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 620
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 7.2267453e-05
Overall Rank: 3,648 | 74.98%
DOI: 10.1145/588111.588135

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sharon McCure Kuck (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Yehoshua Sagiv (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kuck_pods82,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '82},
        title = {{A Universal Relation Database System Implemented Via the Network Model}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588135},
        doi = {10.1145/588111.588135},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Kuck, Sharon McCure and Sagiv, Yehoshua},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,289	Windows On The World	1983	SIGMOD	8.7994393e-05
3,443	LAURA: A Formal Data Model and Her Logical Design Methodology	1983	VLDB	7.4116889e-05
5,033	Universal Relation Views: A Pragmatic Approach	1983	VLDB	6.3934244e-05
8,977	Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas	1983	SIGMOD	5.3406923e-05
9,260	The Revenge Of The Jd	1983	PODS	5.2970277e-05
13,235	Combining Relational And Network Retrieval Methods	1984	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,247	Attributed Grammars for Query Language Translations (Extended Abstract)	1983	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
40	Testing Implications Of Data Dependencies	1979	SIGMOD	0.00046918506
97	Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions	1978	SIGMOD	0.00034574497
266	Can We Use The Universal Instance Assumption Without Using Nulls?	1981	SIGMOD	0.00022823892
540	Synthesizing Independent Database Schemas	1979	SIGMOD	0.0001686137
752	Design Of Relational Views Over Network Schemas	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014346719

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