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: 834
Venue: PODS
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00025262028
Overall Rank: 375 | 97.40%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul
2. Victor Vianu

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
353	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00026275228
552	Why Not Negation By Fixpoint?	1988	PODS	0.00020309855
1,020	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00014614067
1,208	The Alternating Fixpoint of Logic Programs with Negation (Extended Abstract)	1989	PODS	0.00013272698
1,386	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00012251453
1,450	Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	0.00011926567
1,833	The Expressiveness of a Family of Finite Set Languages	1991	PODS	0.00010365844
1,931	Foundations of Data-Aware Process Analysis: A Database Theory Perspective	2013	PODS	0.0001005178
2,520	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.6044305e-05
2,800	A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model	1990	PODS	8.1079752e-05
2,808	On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types	1988	PODS	8.0939851e-05
3,195	On Accessing Object-Oriented Databases: Expressive Power, Complexity, and Restrictions	1989	SIGMOD	7.4052272e-05
3,776	Polynomial Time Query Processing in Temporal Deductive Databases	1990	PODS	6.7716942e-05
4,014	A Web Odyssey: from Codd to XML	2001	PODS	6.5300582e-05
5,716	Datalog Unchained	2021	PODS	5.3569788e-05
6,189	A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases	1991	VLDB	5.1606771e-05
7,174	CONSTRAINT QUERY LANGUAGES (preliminary report)	1990	PODS	4.8068344e-05
7,363	IDLOG: Extending the Expressive Power of Deductive Database Languages	1990	SIGMOD	4.7461604e-05
8,173	The Power of Methods With Parallel Semantics	1991	VLDB	4.5640563e-05
12,892	Learning Efficient Query Processing Strategies	1992	PODS	4.1905499e-05
12,920	A Non-deterministic Deductive Database Language	1991	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,946	Declarative Expression of Deductive Database Updates	1989	PODS	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
303	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00028289399
552	Why Not Negation By Fixpoint?	1988	PODS	0.00020309855
1,920	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	0.00010092077

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