Answering Recursive Queries Using Views

Summary: Extends view-based rewriting from conjunctive queries to general recursive datalog: ask whether a datalog program P can be rewritten to use only materialized views as EDBs. Proves undecidability, but provides an effective construction of a maximal contained datalog rewriting using views that is guaranteed to be equivalent if any view-only equivalent exists. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h147dea64ade625d6
Venue: PODS
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 0.0001682881
Overall Rank: 532 | 96.43%
DOI: 10.1145/263661.263674

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Authors

1. Oliver M. Duschka (Stanford University)
2. Michael R. Genesereth (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{duschka_pods97,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '97},
        title = {{Answering Recursive Queries Using Views}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/263661.263674},
        doi = {10.1145/263661.263674},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Duschka, Oliver M. and Genesereth, Michael R.},
        year = {1997}
}

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24	Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective	2002	PODS	0.00055043581
162	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027536748
238	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00023591683
326	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020963333
418	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018617842
813	Composing Mappings Among Data Sources	2003	VLDB	0.00013722762
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013646923
905	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013170652
935	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00012989395
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1,555	Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance	2007	VLDB	0.00010269848
2,041	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.1421879e-05
2,044	Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting	2005	PODS	9.137464e-05
2,127	Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data	1999	SIGMOD	9.0005009e-05
2,574	Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics	1997	PODS	8.278796e-05
3,095	Query Containment for Data Integration Systems	2000	PODS	7.6532922e-05
3,763	Dynamically Distributed Query Evaluation	2001	PODS	7.0419284e-05
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8,290	User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE	2001	VLDB	5.3614554e-05
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12,900	Incompleteness in Information Integration	2008	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037549176
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031630695
167	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00027190004
177	Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries	1987	PODS	0.000266613
301	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00021682744
1,052	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012275281
2,024	Proof-Tree Transformation Theorems and Their Applications	1989	PODS	9.166955e-05

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