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FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language

Summary: FAD is a functional DB language for a highly parallel machine, built around persistent objects, object identity, and abstract data types. Its design uses low-level operators and operator constructors to support iteration, conditionals, and set ops with dataflow execution, and it has been implemented as a main-memory interpreter and inside a DB machine prototype. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h090ec522f25653d4
Venue
VLDB
Year
1987
Pagerank
0.00013771533
Overall Rank
809 | 94.57%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{bancilhon_vldb87,
        title = {{FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language}},
        author = {Bancilhon, Francois and Briggs, Ted and Khoshafian, Setrag and Valduriez, Patrick},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        year = {1987}
}

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302 Shoring Up Persistent Applications 1994 SIGMOD 0.00021664369
1,383 On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010842596
1,689 ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model 1989 SIGMOD 9.8584331e-05
1,969 A Call to Order 1993 PODS 9.2924398e-05
1,987 Continuous Analytics Over Discontinuous Streams 2010 SIGMOD 9.2478037e-05
2,306 Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference 1989 SIGMOD 8.6673254e-05
2,457 Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries 1989 PODS 8.4335382e-05
4,017 Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach 1991 SIGMOD 6.8496616e-05
4,158 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.7704058e-05
4,681 Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach) 1992 VLDB 6.4700365e-05
4,919 LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors 2020 SIGMOD 6.3519157e-05
6,516 A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases 1991 VLDB 5.7565621e-05
7,234 A Query Language for NC 1994 PODS 5.576635e-05
8,556 OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages 1995 SIGMOD 5.3146149e-05
9,842 Implementation and Analysis of a Parallel Collection Query Language 1996 VLDB 5.1215512e-05
13,318 Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types 1994 PODS 4.9769913e-05
13,322 A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing 1994 PODS 4.9769913e-05
13,367 A Domain-theoretic Approach to Integrating Functional and Logic Database Languages 1993 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
13,422 The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C 1990 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
13,457 Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms 1988 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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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
16 The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX 1979 SIGMOD 0.00059968627
140 Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations 1982 PODS 0.00029333191
434 The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) 1982 PODS 0.00018319684
486 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00017463801
559 A New Approach to Database Logic 1984 PODS 0.00016414522
636 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00015361511
865 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00013385895
1,085 A Normal Form for Nested Relations 1985 PODS 0.00012107176
1,621 An Algebra Of Quotient Relations 1977 SIGMOD 0.00010049799
4,813 On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model 1985 SIGMOD 6.4009941e-05
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