Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model

Summary: Designs storage and access structures for an Ada/ADAPLEX DBMS whose semantic model natively supports generalization hierarchies. Explains how physical organizations preserve these semantics while enabling performance-oriented tuning. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7735
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 0.00010749899
Overall Rank: 1,449 | 90.07%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arvola Chan (Computer Corporation of America)
2. Sy Danberg (Computer Corporation of America)
3. Stephen Fox (Computer Corporation of America)
4. Wen-Te K. Lin (Computer Corporation of America)
5. Anil Nori (Computer Corporation of America)
6. Daniel Ries (Computer Corporation of America)

BibTeX Citation

@article{chan_vldb82,
        title = {{Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model}},
        author = {Chan, Arvola and Danberg, Sy and Fox, Stephen and Lin, Wen-Te K. and Nori, Anil and Ries, Daniel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {122},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,346	Fido: A Cache That Learns to Fetch	1991	VLDB	0.00011078024
2,070	A Performance Evaluation of Pointer-Based Joins	1990	SIGMOD	9.2277271e-05
2,912	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.9688007e-05
3,233	Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis	1987	SIGMOD	7.6174587e-05
3,316	Accommodating Exceptions in Databases, and Refining the Schema by Learning from Them	1985	VLDB	7.5269817e-05
3,811	A Recovery Algorithm for a Distributed Database System	1983	PODS	7.1060924e-05
4,010	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.9610816e-05
4,342	Modeling Class Hierarchies with Contradictions	1988	SIGMOD	6.7537389e-05
5,159	Overview of an Ada* Compatible Distributed Database Manager	1983	SIGMOD	6.3400003e-05
5,790	Supporting a Semantic Data Model in a Distributed Database System	1983	VLDB	6.0873621e-05
5,817	Object-Oriented Database Support for Software Environments	1987	SIGMOD	6.0773173e-05
6,051	The Integrated Data Model: A Database Perspective	1983	VLDB	5.9942339e-05
13,238	A Personal Data Manager	1984	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858

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