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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Molham Aref (RelationalAI)
- 2. Paolo Guagliardo (The University of Edinburgh)
- 3. George Kastrinis (RelationalAI)
- 4. Leonid Libkin (RelationalAI; The University of Edinburgh)
- 5. Victor Marsault (Gustave Eiffel University)
- 6. Wim Martens (RelationalAI; University of Bayreuth)
- 7. Mary McGrath (RelationalAI)
- 8. Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw)
- 9. Nathaniel Nystrom (RelationalAI)
- 10. Liat Peterfreund (Hebrew University)
- 11. Allison Rogers (RelationalAI)
- 12. Cristina Sirangelo (Université Paris Cité)
- 13. Domagoj Vrgoč (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
- 14. David Zhao (RelationalAI)
- 15. Abdul Zreika (RelationalAI)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{aref_sigmod25,
title = {{Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data}},
author = {Aref, Molham and Guagliardo, Paolo and Kastrinis, George and Libkin, Leonid and Marsault, Victor and Martens, Wim and McGrath, Mary and Murlak, Filip and Nystrom, Nathaniel and Peterfreund, Liat and Rogers, Allison and Sirangelo, Cristina and Vrgoč, Domagoj and Zhao, David and Zreika, Abdul},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3722212.3724450},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3722212.3724450},
year = {2025}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,133 | Database Research needs an Abstract Relational Query Language | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,143 | Raqlet: Cross-Paradigm Compilation for Recursive Queries | 2026 | CIDR | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,148 | Size Bound-Adorned Datalog | 2026 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,422 | A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,582 | FlowLog: Efficient and Extensible Datalog via Incrementality | 2026 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0007727299 |
| 66 | The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse | 2016 | SIGMOD | 0.00038561587 |
| 321 | Worst-Case Optimal Join Algorithms: Techniques, Results, and Open Problems | 2018 | PODS | 0.00021283186 |
| 490 | Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System | 2015 | SIGMOD | 0.000175757 |
| 547 | Cypher: An Evolving Query Language for Property Graphs | 2018 | SIGMOD | 0.00016731552 |
| 1,836 | Graph Pattern Matching in GQL and SQL/PGQ | 2022 | SIGMOD | 9.6489549e-05 |
| 1,928 | Relations with Relation Names as Arguments: Algebra and Calculus | 1992 | PODS | 9.4692029e-05 |
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