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LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language

Summary: LDL combines logic-programming flexibility with relational-database performance through compilation. It adds explicit control, sets, updates, and negation, providing a richer data model than conventional logic languages. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h0d0412d96475b6d0
Venue
VLDB
Year
1986
Pagerank
0.00015368492
Overall Rank
635 | 95.74%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{tsur_vldb86,
        title = {{LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language}},
        author = {Tsur, Shalom and Zaniolo, Carlo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        volume = {12},
        pages = {33--41},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
118 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00031392616
143 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00029179719
297 GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion 1990 PODS 0.00021840374
809 FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language 1987 VLDB 0.00013777631
828 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00013614671
874 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00013331383
1,011 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012529816
1,049 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.0001229888
1,867 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.4806184e-05
2,150 Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 8.953998e-05
2,844 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 7.9475065e-05
3,541 Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.2161746e-05
4,158 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.7735939e-05
4,425 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.6039832e-05
5,099 Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System 1993 SIGMOD 6.2734925e-05
5,283 Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL) 1988 PODS 6.1979847e-05
6,602 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.7397128e-05
7,504 Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems 1994 VLDB 5.5074425e-05
7,682 Database Updates in Logic Programming 1988 PODS 5.4772833e-05
9,821 Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation 1991 SIGMOD 5.1257999e-05
13,321 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
13,444 An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects 1988 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
18 MAGIC SETS AND OTHER STRANGE WAYS TO IMPLEMENT LOGIC PROGRAMS (Extended Abstract) 1986 PODS 0.00059023577
354 A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00020222123
368 An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00019864474
486 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00017471997
863 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00013392127
1,867 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.4806184e-05
5,566 On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE 1986 SIGMOD 6.082121e-05
6,258 The MR Diagram - A Model for Conceptual Database Design 1985 VLDB 5.8331536e-05
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