The POSTGRES Data Model

Summary: Relational core extended with abstract data types, user-defined operators and procedures, plus inheritance. Supports aggregation, generalization, and complex objects with shared subobjects, plus cross-tuple references. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2b1ec8c6d8be0d24
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 0.00011804665
Overall Rank: 1,144 | 92.34%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California)
2. Michael R. Stonebraker (University of California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rowe_vldb87,
        title = {{The POSTGRES Data Model}},
        author = {Rowe, Lawrence A. and Stonebraker, Michael R.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {83},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
148	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00028920518
500	The Design of XPRS	1988	VLDB	0.0001724009
704	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014633243
1,260	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011293794
1,525	Performance Enhancement Through Replication in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.0001032939
1,697	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8264533e-05
1,853	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	9.4915966e-05
3,003	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.747067e-05
3,190	One WITH RECURSIVE is Worth Many GOTOs	2021	SIGMOD	7.5364422e-05
5,792	Snakes on a Plan: Compiling Python Functions into Plain SQL Queries	2022	SIGMOD	5.9761316e-05
6,413	Functional-Style SQL UDFs With a Capital 'F'	2020	SIGMOD	5.7764365e-05
6,610	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.7180274e-05
7,182	Extending the Relational Algebra to Capture Complex Objects	1989	VLDB	5.5762507e-05
8,756	Coral++: Adding Object-Orientation to a Logic Database Language	1993	VLDB	5.2705676e-05
10,187	How DuckDB is USING KEY to Unlock Recursive Query Performance	2025	SIGMOD	5.052396e-05
10,260	SQL Engines Excel at the Execution of Imperative Programs	2024	VLDB	5.0381136e-05
11,724	mutable: A Modern DBMS for Research and Fast Prototyping	2023	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
12,824	Data Management for High-Throughput Genomics	2009	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
13,433	Experiences With an Object Manager for a Process-Centered Environment	1992	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,474	Incorporating Hierarchy in a Relational Model of Data	1989	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05

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
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059778867
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
97	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034172656
145	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00028989663
150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028835071
185	On Extending the Functions of a Relational Database System	1982	SIGMOD	0.00026084927
354	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020147748
1,130	Quel As A Data Type	1984	SIGMOD	0.00011879113

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