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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
7982
Venue
VLDB
Year
1987
Pagerank
0.00014080876
Overall Rank
782 | 94.64%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{bancilhon_vldb87,
        title = {{FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language}},
        author = {Bancilhon, Francois and Briggs, Ted and Khoshafian, Setrag and Valduriez, Patrick},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        year = {1987}
}

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299 Shoring Up Persistent Applications 1994 SIGMOD 0.00022084669
1,354 On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 0.00011057534
1,662 ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model 1989 SIGMOD 0.00010075123
1,909 A Call to Order 1993 PODS 9.4991504e-05
1,945 Continuous Analytics Over Discontinuous Streams 2010 SIGMOD 9.4348569e-05
2,248 Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference 1989 SIGMOD 8.8703718e-05
2,400 Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries 1989 PODS 8.6299917e-05
3,932 Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach 1991 SIGMOD 7.0089831e-05
4,072 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.9258731e-05
4,577 Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) 1992 VLDB 6.6215963e-05
4,820 LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors 2020 SIGMOD 6.493623e-05
6,383 A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases 1991 VLDB 5.8914773e-05
7,086 A Query Language for NC 1994 PODS 5.7073076e-05
8,380 OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages 1995 SIGMOD 5.4377187e-05
9,662 Implementation and Analysis of a Parallel Collection Query Language 1996 VLDB 5.2409648e-05
13,022 Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types 1994 PODS 5.093636e-05
13,026 A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing 1994 PODS 5.093636e-05
13,071 A Domain-theoretic Approach to Integrating Functional and Logic Database Languages 1993 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,126 The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C 1990 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,161 Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms 1988 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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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
140 Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations 1982 PODS 0.00029686538
421 The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00018742219
475 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00017864549
544 A New Approach to Database Logic 1984 PODS 0.00016792556
622 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00015686753
848 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00013651467
1,056 A Normal Form for Nested Relations 1985 PODS 0.00012388199
1,586 An Algebra Of Quotient Relations 1977 SIGMOD 0.00010282631
4,713 On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model 1985 SIGMOD 6.5501272e-05
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