Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Surveys foundational theory of query languages: equivalence of first-order logic and relational algebra, and the completeness vs. efficiency trade-off. Emphasizes practically useful restricted classes (SPJ, tableaux, sargable), unique minimal forms for SPJ, and the influence of logic programming on query optimization theory. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 809
Venue: PODS
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 9.1532803e-05
Overall Rank: 2,110 | 85.53%
DOI: 10.1145/308386.308396

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ashok K. Chandra (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chandra_pods88,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '88},
        title = {{Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/308386.308396},
        doi = {10.1145/308386.308396},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Chandra, Ashok K.},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
763	On the Complexity of Bounded-Variable Queries	1995	PODS	0.00014230134
2,442	Local Verification of Global Integrity Constraints in Distributed Databases	1993	SIGMOD	8.5767117e-05
7,885	IDLOG: Extending the Expressive Power of Deductive Database Languages	1990	SIGMOD	5.5228272e-05
8,569	The Power of Methods With Parallel Semantics	1991	VLDB	5.4107086e-05
8,773	Semi-determinism (extended abstract)	1992	PODS	5.3766157e-05
12,986	Combinatorial Games in Database Theory	1995	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,097	On the power of Rule-Based Languages with Sets	1991	PODS	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
63	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00038782376
174	Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries	1987	PODS	0.00027231487
622	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00015686753
702	PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	0.00014855299
799	Logic Programming With Sets	1987	PODS	0.00013911498
989	Why Not Negation By Fixpoint?	1988	PODS	0.00012804792
1,026	Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1)	1987	PODS	0.00012578477
1,467	The Complexity of Evaluating Relational Queries	1983	PODS	0.00010687075
1,726	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.9156202e-05
2,897	On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types	1988	PODS	7.9790527e-05
5,210	On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets	1988	PODS	6.3163157e-05
5,569	On The Expressive Power Of The Extended Relational Algebra For The Unnormalized Relational Model	1987	PODS	6.1702169e-05

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