LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language

Summary: LDL combines logic-programming flexibility with relational-database performance through compilation. It adds explicit control, sets, updates, and negation, providing a richer data model than conventional logic languages. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7921
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 0.00015686753
Overall Rank: 622 | 95.74%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Shalom Tsur (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Carlo Zaniolo (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{tsur_vldb86,
        title = {{LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language}},
        author = {Tsur, Shalom and Zaniolo, Carlo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        volume = {12},
        pages = {33--41},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
119	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.0003183602
143	Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries	1986	VLDB	0.0002959213
300	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00022046803
782	FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language	1987	VLDB	0.00014080876
799	Logic Programming With Sets	1987	PODS	0.00013911498
849	Object-Oriented Database Systems	1988	PODS	0.00013620915
992	Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract)	1990	PODS	0.00012790174
1,026	Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1)	1987	PODS	0.00012578477
1,830	Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS	1986	VLDB	9.6641384e-05
2,110	Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	9.1532803e-05
2,783	Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward	1990	SIGMOD	8.1273861e-05
3,476	Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract)	1988	SIGMOD	7.3807586e-05
4,072	Towards a Real Horn Clause Language	1988	VLDB	6.9258731e-05
4,337	Magic Counting Methods	1987	SIGMOD	6.7554367e-05
4,975	Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System	1993	SIGMOD	6.41738e-05
5,161	Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL)	1988	PODS	6.3398667e-05
6,464	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.8714103e-05
7,364	Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems	1994	VLDB	5.6331465e-05
7,536	Database Updates in Logic Programming	1988	PODS	5.6029996e-05
9,645	Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation	1991	SIGMOD	5.2434488e-05
13,031	Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,154	An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract)	1986	PODS	0.00060089598
346	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020654241
357	An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00020283734
475	A Calculus for Complex Objects	1986	PODS	0.00017864549
848	The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects	1985	VLDB	0.00013651467
1,830	Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS	1986	VLDB	9.6641384e-05
5,437	On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE	1986	SIGMOD	6.219804e-05
6,134	The MR Diagram - A Model for Conceptual Database Design	1985	VLDB	5.9651222e-05

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1	5,161	Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL)	1988	PODS
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