Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures
Summary: Introduces flexible relations to model and process heterogeneous structures within the relational paradigm. Presents an algebra and a subclass with normal-form properties, enabling stronger modeling power, typing precision, and query optimization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Christian Kalus
- 2. Peter Dadam
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| 303 | Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata | 1984 | PODS | 0.00028289399 |
| 311 | The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00028106558 |
| 631 | O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model | 1988 | SIGMOD | 0.00018904557 |
| 2,200 | Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric Applications | 1989 | VLDB | 9.3055387e-05 |
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