ARIEL -- A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs
Summary: ARIEL is a nonprocedural semantic-model query language front end for relational DBMSs, supporting set-valued attributes, reference chains, subqueries, null-free outer joins, lightweight views, and aggregates. Its translators target QUEL, SQL, IDL, and DIL, flattening nested queries when required. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Robert M. Mac Gregor (System Development Corporation)
BibTeX Citation
@article{gregor_vldb85,
title = {{ARIEL -- A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs}},
author = {Gregor, Robert M. Mac},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '85},
pages = {305},
year = {1985}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,828 | CQL: A Query Language for Manipulating Object-oriented Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 6.4892476e-05 |
| 13,201 | ECRINS/86: An Extended Entity-Relationship Data Base Management System and its Semantic Query Language | 1986 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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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 |
| 92 | The Database Language GEM | 1983 | SIGMOD | 0.00034759032 |
| 2,912 | An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end. | 1984 | SIGMOD | 7.9688007e-05 |
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