A Comparison of Self-Contained and Embedded Database Languages

Summary: Compares self-contained and embedded database languages, attributing their differences to prespecified structures in the former. Proposes embedding such defaults into compact query languages while retaining flexibility through user-overridable prespecifications, illustrated by two designs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7994
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,954 | 45.43%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. A. Christensen (University of Copenhagen)
2. T. U. Zahle (University of Copenhagen)

BibTeX Citation

@article{christensen_vldb87,
        title = {{A Comparison of Self-Contained and Embedded Database Languages}},
        author = {Christensen, A. and Zahle, T. U.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {209},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,165	Rapid Application Prototyping: The PROQUEL Language	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
325	Implementation Of A Structured English Query Language	1975	SIGMOD	0.00021162719

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