On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages
Summary: Semantic notion of relational query patterns via structure-preserving mappings; yields a pattern-expressiveness hierarchy. Relational Diagrams provide a complete, sound diagrammatic representation for safe relational calculus, capturing unions of non-disjunctive query patterns; user studies show faster, more accurate recognition than SQL. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Wolfgang Gatterbauer (Northeastern University)
- 2. Cody Dunne (Northeastern University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{gatterbauer_sigmod24,
title = {{On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages}},
author = {Gatterbauer, Wolfgang and Dunne, Cody},
series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3639316},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639316},
year = {2024}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,133 | Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,422 | A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,793 | LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,084 | Exploring Exploratory Querying | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 13,313 | PatternVis: A Tool for Relational Pattern Visualization | 2025 | SIGMOD | - |
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Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,829 | Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries | 2018 | VLDB | 9.6671311e-05 |
| 3,991 | The Complexity of Resilience and Responsibility for Self-Join-Free Conjunctive Queries | 2016 | VLDB | 6.9695922e-05 |
| 4,046 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.9392871e-05 |
| 4,246 | Playful Query Specification with DataPlay | 2012 | VLDB | 6.8057675e-05 |
| 4,721 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 6.5444379e-05 |
| 5,378 | Troubles with Nulls, Views from the Users | 2022 | VLDB | 6.2406439e-05 |
| 8,174 | Databases will Visualize Queries too | 2011 | VLDB | 5.4738201e-05 |
| 11,470 | A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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