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: 0.0001677412
Overall Rank: 534 | 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	0.00055201845
164	Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity	1998	SIGMOD	0.00027451323
239	Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views	1998	PODS	0.00023510465
329	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00020888032
419	PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries	2001	SIGMOD	0.00018558415
817	Composing Mappings Among Data Sources	2003	VLDB	0.00013671477
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
909	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013122165
940	A Scalable Algorithm for Answering Queries Using Views	2000	VLDB	0.00012941424
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1,556	Update Exchange with Mappings and Provenance	2007	VLDB	0.00010232016
2,043	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.1266211e-05
2,055	Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting	2005	PODS	9.1029941e-05
2,140	Query Rewriting for Semistructured Data	1999	SIGMOD	8.9688891e-05
2,579	Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics	1997	PODS	8.253743e-05
3,103	Query Containment for Data Integration Systems	2000	PODS	7.6298414e-05
3,769	Dynamically Distributed Query Evaluation	2001	PODS	7.0154753e-05
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5,447	Active Knowledge: Dynamically Enriching RDF Knowledge Bases by Web Services	2010	SIGMOD	6.1110393e-05
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6,417	Constraint Satisfaction and Database Theory: a Tutorial	2000	PODS	5.7743102e-05
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8,038	Foundations of Schema Mapping Management	2010	PODS	5.385844e-05
8,286	User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE	2001	VLDB	5.3449621e-05
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12,948	Incompleteness in Information Integration	2008	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
72	Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00037421163
117	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00031526277
168	Query Transformation for PSJ-queries	1987	VLDB	0.00027117709
179	Decidability And Expressiveness Aspects Of Logic Queries	1987	PODS	0.00026563438
301	Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	0.00021612162
1,057	Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors	1996	PODS	0.00012235875
2,038	Proof-Tree Transformation Theorems and Their Applications	1989	PODS	9.1328477e-05

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