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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,888 | On the Expressive Power of Datalog: Tools and a Case Study | 1990 | PODS | 6.6634475e-05 |
| 6,031 | On Datalog vs. Polynomial Time | 1991 | PODS | 5.2415551e-05 |
| 6,236 | Inherent Complexity of Recursive Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1999 | PODS | 5.1436959e-05 |
| 12,792 | Combinatorial Games in Database Theory | 1995 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 12,884 | Datalog Expressiveness of Chain Queries: Grammar Tools and Characterizations | 1992 | PODS | 4.1945683e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363 | A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00025715157 |
| 1,444 | Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00011946075 |
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| 12,884 | Datalog Expressiveness of Chain Queries: Grammar Tools and Characterizations | 1992 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 1,444 | Finding Regular Simple Paths in Graph Databases | 1989 | VLDB | 0.00011946075 |
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