Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data

Summary: Rel breaks the sublanguage/host-language paradigm to enable end-to-end application semantics in relational data. It introduces constructs that express traditional queries and support programming in the large, leveraging decades of DB research to reduce impedance mismatch. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7113
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.1214271e-05
Overall Rank: 6,303 | 56.16%
DOI: 10.1145/3722212.3724450

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,986	Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
9,997	Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries	2026	CIDR	4.1945683e-05
10,133	A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,284	FlowLog: Efficient and Extensible Datalog via Incrementality	2026	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
8	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0015385917
167	The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse	2016	SIGMOD	0.00039180521
613	Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System	2015	SIGMOD	0.00019181325
789	Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	0.00016634256
1,871	Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus	1992	PODS	0.00010259891
2,505	Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ	2022	SIGMOD	8.634551e-05

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4,594	A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language	1991	VLDB	6.0602776e-05
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7,421	A Self-Controlling Interpreter for the Relational Production Language	1988	SIGMOD	4.7344342e-05
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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
4,413	Toward Logical Data Independence: A Relational Query Language without Relations	1982	SIGMOD	6.205847e-05
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