Deductive Databases in Action

Summary: Practical survey of deductive database prototypes emphasizing application domains where rule-based query/inference yields clear benefits. Reports implementation experience, identifies deployment challenges, and proposes research directions to bridge theory and practice. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 931
Venue: PODS
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,101 | 10.12%
DOI: 10.1145/113413.113426

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Authors

1. Shalom Tsur (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tsur_pods91,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '91},
        title = {{Deductive Databases in Action}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/113413.113426},
        doi = {10.1145/113413.113426},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Tsur, Shalom},
        year = {1991}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
357	An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00020283734
527	The Magic of Duplicates and Aggregates	1990	VLDB	0.00017108864
2,783	Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward	1990	SIGMOD	8.1273861e-05
3,076	A New Paradigm For Parallel And Distributed Rule-Processing	1990	SIGMOD	7.7817058e-05
3,560	Minimum and Maximum Predicates in Logic Programming	1991	PODS	7.3094581e-05
4,121	Distributed Processing Of Logic Programs	1988	SIGMOD	6.8889854e-05
5,437	On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE	1986	SIGMOD	6.219804e-05
8,942	New Directions For Uncertainty Reasoning In Deductive Databases	1991	SIGMOD	5.3483178e-05

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