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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
7731
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00021145923
Overall Rank
520 | 96.39%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
134 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00043070028
144 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00041430126
256 GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion 1990 PODS 0.00030241337
652 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00018643929
720 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00017531889
722 FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language 1987 VLDB 0.00017505795
751 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00017155121
850 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 0.00015911875
910 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.00015398775
1,450 Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 0.00011926567
2,559 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 8.5416101e-05
3,320 Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.2212998e-05
3,607 Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System 1993 SIGMOD 6.9244732e-05
3,739 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.7979486e-05
4,440 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.180671e-05
4,986 Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL) 1988 PODS 5.7789317e-05
6,465 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.0464278e-05
6,713 Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems 1994 VLDB 4.9467518e-05
6,934 Database Updates in Logic Programming 1988 PODS 4.8878659e-05
8,224 An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects 1988 SIGMOD 4.550782e-05
9,511 Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation 1991 SIGMOD 4.3300131e-05
12,846 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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 0.00099936325
154 An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00040747653
273 A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00029399666
443 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00023059917
637 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00018812264
850 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 0.00015911875
4,788 On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE 1986 SIGMOD 5.9146364e-05
5,157 The MR Diagram - A Model for Conceptual Database Design 1985 VLDB 5.6531429e-05
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