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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
0.0001531355
Overall Rank
638 | 95.73%
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)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
118 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00031320165
144 Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00029092688
299 GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion 1990 PODS 0.00021766741
810 FAD, a Powerful and Simple Database Language 1987 VLDB 0.0001372686
831 Logic Programming With Sets 1987 PODS 0.00013564613
875 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00013282524
1,012 Query Size Estimation by Adaptive Sampling (Extended Abstract) 1990 PODS 0.00012489386
1,056 Sets and Negation in a Logic Database Language (LDL1) 1987 PODS 0.00012252667
1,871 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.4478731e-05
2,161 Theory of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) 1988 PODS 8.9203568e-05
2,855 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 7.9175265e-05
3,551 Data Functions, Datalog and Negation (Extended Abstract) 1988 SIGMOD 7.188942e-05
4,178 Towards a Real Horn Clause Language 1988 VLDB 6.748354e-05
4,447 Magic Counting Methods 1987 SIGMOD 6.5790432e-05
5,124 Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System 1993 SIGMOD 6.2497911e-05
5,306 Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Language (LDL) 1988 PODS 6.1746107e-05
6,610 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.7180274e-05
7,528 Reasoning about Spatial Relationships in Picture Retrieval Systems 1994 VLDB 5.4867266e-05
7,701 Database Updates in Logic Programming 1988 PODS 5.4565877e-05
9,862 Nested Relation Based Database Knowledge Representation 1991 SIGMOD 5.1064323e-05
13,368 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,491 An Implementation Model For Reasoning With Complex Objects 1988 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-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 0.00058816744
354 A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00020147748
369 An Optimizing Prolog Front-End to a Relational Query System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00019791902
488 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00017406684
866 The Representation and Deductive Retrieval of Complex Objects 1985 VLDB 0.00013342501
1,871 Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS 1986 VLDB 9.4478731e-05
5,583 On the Evaluation Strategy of EDUCE 1986 SIGMOD 6.0593137e-05
6,273 The MR Diagram - A Model for Conceptual Database Design 1985 VLDB 5.811287e-05
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