On Implementing a Language for Specifying Active Database Execution Models

Summary: Heraclitus: a C-extension language to specify active DB execution semantics with deltas as first-class values. Delta-aware operators and delta propagation in joins enable hypothetical/versioned states; two delta-access strategies: hash-based and sort-based, with preliminary implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8146
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 8.1886759e-05
Overall Rank: 2,745 | 80.91%
DOI: -

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481	Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates	1995	SIGMOD	0.00022167223
1,390	Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information	1996	SIGMOD	0.00012248349
2,726	A Framework for Implementing Hypothetical Queries	1997	SIGMOD	8.2245669e-05
5,943	Safety and Translation of Calculus Queries with Scalar Functions (Extended Abstract)	1993	PODS	5.2629428e-05
14,018	Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates In Object-Oriented Databases	1996	SIGMOD	-

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10	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.0012103754
32	Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases	1976	SIGMOD	0.00077486306
133	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00042757638
164	The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System*	1989	SIGMOD	0.00039519398
187	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00036020812
201	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00034943762
264	Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance	1991	VLDB	0.00029844694
633	Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00018905148
1,218	Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance	1990	VLDB	0.00013226899
1,424	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues	1993	VLDB	0.00012054309
1,781	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	0.00010574604
2,155	An Implementation of Hypothetical Relations	1983	VLDB	9.4197523e-05
2,522	Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases	1991	VLDB	8.6059315e-05
3,205	Integrating Object-Oriented Data Modeling with a Rule-Based Programming Paradigm	1990	SIGMOD	7.3867679e-05
4,141	Explicit Control of Logic Programs Through Rule Algebra	1988	PODS	6.4141369e-05
6,693	Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates In Deductive Databases	1988	VLDB	4.9598818e-05

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