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FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language

Summary: FAD is a functional DB language for a highly parallel machine, built around persistent objects, object identity, and abstract data types. Its design uses low-level operators and operator constructors to support iteration, conditionals, and set ops with dataflow execution, and it has been implemented as a main-memory interpreter and inside a DB machine prototype. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
7791
Venue
VLDB
Year
1987
Pagerank
0.00017536758
Overall Rank
724 | 94.97%
DOI
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1,879 A Call to Order 1993 PODS 0.00010232242
2,198 Continuous Analytics Over Discontinuous Streams 2010 SIGMOD 9.308495e-05
2,317 Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference 1989 SIGMOD 9.0409573e-05
2,515 Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries 1989 PODS 8.6128871e-05
3,125 Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach 1991 SIGMOD 7.5122592e-05
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4,510 Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) 1992 VLDB 6.1250352e-05
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5,974 A Query Language for NC 1994 PODS 5.246329e-05
6,188 A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases 1991 VLDB 5.165641e-05
8,037 OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages 1995 SIGMOD 4.6005069e-05
9,520 Implementation and Analysis of a Parallel Collection Query Language 1996 VLDB 4.3323764e-05
12,828 Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types 1994 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,832 A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing 1994 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,877 A Domain-theoretic Approach to Integrating Functional and Logic Database Languages 1993 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,931 The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C 1990 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
12 The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX 1979 SIGMOD 0.0011248121
97 Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations 1982 PODS 0.0005080702
309 The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00028136165
440 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00023084404
485 A New Approach to Database Logic 1984 PODS 0.00022085103
519 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00021154077
545 An Algebra Of Quotient Relations 1977 SIGMOD 0.00020448712
632 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00018923134
1,052 A Normal Form for Nested Relations 1985 PODS 0.00014436103
4,028 On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model 1985 SIGMOD 6.5157392e-05
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