PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Relates procedural TL (with "with new") and its restricted/deterministic forms (WTL/STL/detTL/SdetTL) to declarative Datalog extensions, focusing on expressive power. Characterizes update classes: STL = NPSPACE; deterministic variants capture deterministic updates; some restrictions yield PSPACE, clarifying procedural vs declarative and non‑deterministic tradeoffs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 833
Venue: PODS
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00014855299
Overall Rank: 702 | 95.19%
DOI: 10.1145/308386.308448

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Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA)
2. Victor Vianu (University of California San Diego)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{abiteboul_pods88,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '88},
        title = {{PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/308386.308448},
        doi = {10.1145/308386.308448},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Vianu, Victor},
        year = {1988}
}

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355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
971	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012875736
989	Why Not Negation By Fixpoint?	1988	PODS	0.00012804792
1,297	The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract)	1989	PODS	0.0001126031
1,609	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010225236
1,864	The Expressiveness of a Family of Finite Set Languages	1991	PODS	9.5928463e-05
2,110	Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	9.1532803e-05
2,400	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.6299917e-05
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2,653	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	8.2898925e-05
2,897	On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types	1988	PODS	7.9790527e-05
3,128	On Accessing Object-Oriented Databases: Expressive Power, Complexity, and Restrictions	1989	SIGMOD	7.7292081e-05
4,178	A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML	2001	PODS	6.849218e-05
4,238	Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases	1990	PODS	6.8109945e-05
4,943	Datalog Unchained	2021	PODS	6.4332239e-05
6,383	A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases	1991	VLDB	5.8914773e-05
7,384	CONSTRAINT QUERY LANGUAGES (preliminary report)	1990	PODS	5.6282573e-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
13,076	Learning Efficient Query Processing Strategies	1992	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,105	A Non-deterministic Deductive Database Language	1991	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,131	Declarative Expression of Deductive Database Updates	1989	PODS	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
413	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018894294
989	Why Not Negation By Fixpoint?	1988	PODS	0.00012804792
1,726	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.9156202e-05

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