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Querying and Updating the File*

Summary: Structured data in files can be queried and updated via standard DB techniques. Proposes structuring schema: a grammar annotated with database programs and a database schema; studies translation between structured strings and databases, adapting relational optimizations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8116
Venue
VLDB
Year
1993
Pagerank
0.00022453592
Overall Rank
466 | 96.76%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
253 Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems 1996 SIGMOD 0.00030569863
393 From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities 1994 SIGMOD 0.00024524092
437 W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web 1995 VLDB 0.00023240203
1,314 Semistructured Data 1997 PODS 0.0001263326
1,599 Formal Models of Web Queries 1997 PODS 0.00011202032
1,919 Cut and Paste 1997 PODS 0.00010094755
2,153 Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques 1995 SIGMOD 9.4231298e-05
2,569 Optimizing Queries on Files 1994 SIGMOD 8.5218077e-05
2,593 A Database Interface for File Update 1995 SIGMOD 8.4746844e-05
3,438 DTD-Directed Publishing with Attribute Translation Grammars 2002 VLDB 7.0932714e-05
3,476 Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract) 1995 SIGMOD 7.0587697e-05
3,994 OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database 1994 VLDB 6.5527307e-05
5,198 Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 5.6346171e-05
5,871 Expressiveness of Structured Document Query Languages Based on Attribute Grammars (extended abstract) 1998 PODS 5.2943906e-05
6,869 An Open Abstract-Object Storage System 1996 SIGMOD 4.9005143e-05
11,784 Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates 2017 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,563 Database-Inspired Search 2005 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,680 Storage and Retrieval of XML Data Using Relational Databases 2001 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,828 Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types 1994 PODS 4.1945683e-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
352 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026299604
524 A Model Of Queries For Object-Oriented Databases 1989 VLDB 0.00021083007
845 Objects and Views 1991 SIGMOD 0.0001599936
1,199 A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries 1992 SIGMOD 0.00013354204
4,381 Functional and Predicative programming in OODB's 1992 PODS 6.2389434e-05
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