A Comparison Of Self-Contained And Embedded Database Languages

Summary: Comparison of self-contained and embedded database languages; prespecifications in self-contained designs enable compact embedded forms. Introduces override mechanisms to preserve flexibility and illustrates with two improved embedded query language examples. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7803
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 4.7180617e-05
Overall Rank: 7,529 | 47.63%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. A. Christensen
2. T.U. Zahle

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,968	Rapid Application Prototyping: The PROQUEL Language	1988	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
93	Implementation Of A Structured English Query Language	1975	SIGMOD	0.00051186251

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