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The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence

Summary: Eliminates physical-data dependence by modeling storage with a declarative relational-algebra language over a logical schema. An integrated optimizer translates queries and updates into plans over these storage structures, with experiments showing workload-tuned storage outperforms conventional approaches. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8398
Venue
VLDB
Year
1994
Pagerank
0.00016328445
Overall Rank
570 | 96.10%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{tsatalas_vldb94,
        title = {{The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence}},
        author = {Tsatalas, Odysseas G. and Solomon, Marvin H. and Ioannidis, Yannis E.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {367},
        year = {1994}
}

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2,284 Access Support in Object Bases 1990 SIGMOD 8.8086905e-05
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