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Differential Files: Their Application To The Maintenance Of Large Data Bases

Summary: Proposes DIFFERENTIAL FILES: a differential database representation storing data as differences from a static reference, ideal for large, volatile databases. Modifications are localized to small storage regions, yielding fast backup/recovery and straightforward maintenance of the reference point. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h1149cf3a80fe6abe
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1976
Pagerank
0.00039605949
Overall Rank
59 | 99.61%
DOI
10.1145/509383.509391

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{severance_sigmod76,
        title = {{DIFFERENTIAL FILES: THEIR APPLICATION TO THE MAINTENANCE OF LARGE DATA BASES}},
        author = {Severance, D. G. and Lohman, G. M.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509391},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509391},
        year = {1976}
}

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