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: 8117
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.00022431377
Overall Rank: 467 | 96.76%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
253	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00030517335
393	From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities	1994	SIGMOD	0.00024506032
438	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00023220283
1,314	Semistructured Data	1997	PODS	0.00012618313
1,601	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	0.00011197057
1,922	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010084845
2,150	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	9.4245849e-05
2,572	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.5141353e-05
2,597	A Database Interface for File Update	1995	SIGMOD	8.4665851e-05
3,444	DTD-Directed Publishing with Attribute Translation Grammars	2002	VLDB	7.086431e-05
3,480	Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	SIGMOD	7.053069e-05
3,996	OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database	1994	VLDB	6.545309e-05
5,198	Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	5.6294569e-05
5,875	Expressiveness of Structured Document Query Languages Based on Attribute Grammars (extended abstract)	1998	PODS	5.2893146e-05
6,874	An Open Abstract-Object Storage System	1996	SIGMOD	4.8958076e-05
11,792	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,572	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,689	Storage and Retrieval of XML Data Using Relational Databases	2001	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,837	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
353	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00026275228
525	A Model Of Queries For Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00021060258
842	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00015981389
1,201	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013341955
4,378	Functional and Predicative programming in OODB's	1992	PODS	6.2329359e-05

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