Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward
Summary: RDL1 embeds a production-rule language in a relational DB to render deductive databases practical and support rule-based programming with ADTs. Shows practical deductive DB deployment with experiences and comparisons to LDL/STARBURST/POSTGRES. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. G Kiernan (INRIA)
- 2. C de Maindreville (INRIA)
- 3. E Simon (INRIA)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kiernan_sigmod90,
title = {{Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward}},
author = {Kiernan, G and de Maindreville, C and Simon, E},
series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/93597.98733},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98733},
year = {1990}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,372 | Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance | 1990 | VLDB | 0.00010898439 |
| 2,237 | CORAL—Control, Relations and Logic | 1992 | VLDB | 8.7753131e-05 |
| 3,517 | Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems | 1996 | VLDB | 7.2422477e-05 |
| 4,120 | Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems | 1995 | SIGMOD | 6.7947455e-05 |
| 5,099 | Implementation of the CORAL Deductive Database System | 1993 | SIGMOD | 6.2734925e-05 |
| 5,856 | Implementing High Level Active Rules on top of a Relational DBMS | 1992 | VLDB | 5.9696592e-05 |
| 6,470 | An Adaptive Algorithm for Incremental Evaluation of Production Rules in Databases | 1993 | VLDB | 5.7743274e-05 |
| 13,391 | Deductive Databases in Action | 1991 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,402 | Effects of Database Size on Rule System Performance: Five Case Studies | 1991 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 203 | The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System* | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00025229522 |
| 273 | Extensible Query Processing in Starburst | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00022504729 |
| 635 | LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00015368492 |
| 1,075 | Towards an Open Architecture for LDL | 1989 | VLDB | 0.0001215903 |
| 6,892 | Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates In Deductive Databases | 1988 | VLDB | 5.6541068e-05 |
| 8,301 | Managing Complex Objects in an Extensible Relational DBMS | 1989 | VLDB | 5.360065e-05 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 559 | A New Approach to Database Logic | 1984 | PODS |
| 2 | 7,683 | Perspectives in Deductive Databases | 1987 | PODS |
| 3 | 635 | LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language | 1986 | VLDB |
| 4 | 13,489 | Adaptive Predicate Managers in Database Systems | 1986 | VLDB |
| 5 | 6,514 | A Functional Programming Approach to Deductive Databases | 1991 | VLDB |
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| 7 | 8,051 | IDLOG: Extending the Expressive Power of Deductive Database Languages | 1990 | SIGMOD |
| 8 | 13,331 | An Effective Deductive Object-Oriented Database Through Language Integration | 1994 | VLDB |
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| 10 | 6,892 | Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates In Deductive Databases | 1988 | VLDB |