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: 0.00013777631
Overall Rank: 809 | 94.57%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Francois Bancilhon (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Ted Briggs (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
3. Setrag Khoshafian (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
4. Patrick Valduriez (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

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302	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002167061
1,383	On-the-Fly Sharing for Streamed Aggregation	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010847646
1,689	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8628503e-05
1,968	A Call to Order	1993	PODS	9.2967501e-05
1,985	Continuous Analytics Over Discontinuous Streams	2010	SIGMOD	9.2521678e-05
2,302	Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference	1989	SIGMOD	8.6714301e-05
2,457	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.4375276e-05
4,016	Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach	1991	SIGMOD	6.8528977e-05
4,158	Towards a Real Horn Clause Language	1988	VLDB	6.7735939e-05
4,678	Supporting Lists in a Data Model (A Timely Approach)	1992	VLDB	6.4731003e-05
4,918	LightSaber: Efficient Window Aggregation on Multi-core Processors	2020	SIGMOD	6.3548575e-05
6,514	A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases	1991	VLDB	5.7592884e-05
7,232	A Query Language for NC	1994	PODS	5.579276e-05
8,549	OFL: A Functional Execution Model for Object Query Languages	1995	SIGMOD	5.3171056e-05
9,835	Implementation and Analysis of a Parallel Collection Query Language	1996	VLDB	5.1239767e-05
13,312	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,316	A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing	1994	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,361	A Domain-theoretic Approach to Integrating Functional and Logic Database Languages	1993	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,416	The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C	1990	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,451	Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms	1988	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by 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
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338
140	Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations	1982	PODS	0.00029346895
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018328281
486	A Calculus for Complex Objects	1986	PODS	0.00017471997
559	A New Approach to Database Logic	1984	PODS	0.00016422254
635	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00015368492
863	The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects	1985	VLDB	0.00013392127
1,084	A Normal Form for Nested Relations	1985	PODS	0.00012112852
1,620	An Algebra Of Quotient Relations	1977	SIGMOD	0.00010054489
4,811	On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model	1985	SIGMOD	6.4040053e-05

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