Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface

Summary: Introduces portals, a DBMS API for programs that browse and perform ad-hoc updates, overcoming limitations of conventional language embeddings. Portals request tuple collections in one operation and support novel concurrency-control schemes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7817
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 8.5201824e-05
Overall Rank: 2,480 | 82.99%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb84,
        title = {{Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Rowe, Lawrence A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '84},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
1,851	Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications	1993	VLDB	9.6139015e-05
2,494	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.5053229e-05
2,518	Architecture and Implementation of the Darmstadt Database Kernel System	1987	SIGMOD	8.4755514e-05
4,127	The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects	1992	SIGMOD	6.8852658e-05
6,422	High Performance Sql Through Low-Level System Integration	1988	SIGMOD	5.8817629e-05
7,026	Operation Specific Locking In B-Trees	1987	PODS	5.7232444e-05
13,200	The Management of Dynamically Distributed Database Windows (Extended Abstract)	1986	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
247	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00023302214
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
750	Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014379744
1,078	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012263786
1,275	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00011372804

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