Inductive Pebble Games And The Expressive Power Of Datalog
Summary: Develops inductive pebble games and a DATALOG normal form tied to Alternating Turing Machine computations as a tool to prove inexpressibility. Applies this framework to sketch that the directed simple even-length path query is not expressible in DATALOG. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,889 | On the Expressive Power of Datalog: Tools and a Case Study | 1990 | PODS | 6.6570358e-05 |
| 6,035 | On Datalog vs. Polynomial Time | 1991 | PODS | 5.2365238e-05 |
| 6,234 | Inherent Complexity of Recursive Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1999 | PODS | 5.1387584e-05 |
| 12,801 | Combinatorial Games in Database Theory | 1995 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 12,894 | Datalog Expressiveness of Chain Queries: Grammar Tools and Characterizations | 1992 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 364 | A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00025657601 |
| 1,445 | Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00011937596 |
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