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LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language

Summary: LDL fuses logic-programming flexibility with relational DB performance via compilation. It provides uniform data/view/constraint formalism with sets, updates and negation, enabling reasoning, parallel processing, and future temporal/non-monotonic support. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7730
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00021154077
Overall Rank
519 | 96.40%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
132 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00042994082
143 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041510555
256 GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion 1990 PODS 0.00030259041
649 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00018662857
722 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00017547917
724 FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language 1987 VLDB 0.00017536758
762 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00017036868
854 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 0.00015933596
912 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.00015414126
1,448 Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 0.00011938045
2,557 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 8.5462449e-05
3,317 Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.2283048e-05
3,602 Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System 1993 SIGMOD 6.9311702e-05
3,738 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.8032471e-05
4,555 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.0891017e-05
4,987 Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL) 1988 PODS 5.7844667e-05
6,473 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.0509826e-05
6,712 Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems 1994 VLDB 4.951436e-05
6,932 Database Updates in Logic Programming 1988 PODS 4.8925595e-05
8,226 An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects 1988 SIGMOD 4.5551494e-05
9,510 Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation 1991 SIGMOD 4.3341665e-05
12,837 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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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
16 MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1986 PODS 0.0010066783
154 An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00040645847
272 A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00029426313
440 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00023084404
632 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00018923134
854 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 0.00015933596
4,789 On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE 1986 SIGMOD 5.9195712e-05
5,160 The MR Diagram - A Model for Conceptual Database Design 1985 VLDB 5.6578245e-05
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