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Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)

Summary: Reduces query rewriting to containment mappings from views to the query for conjunctive/union queries with built-in comparisons. Shows NP-completeness, separates complexity into mapping enumeration vs. literal deletion, and gives a poly-time redundancy test that often yields minimal rewritings. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h4e64d222c0876c8f
Venue
PODS
Year
1995
Pagerank
0.00037549176
Overall Rank
72 | 99.52%
DOI
10.1145/212433.220198

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{levy_pods95,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '95},
        title = {{Answering Queries Using Views (Extended Abstract)}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/212433.220198},
        doi = {10.1145/212433.220198},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Levy, Alon Y. and Mendelzon, Alberto O. and Sagiv, Yehoshua and Srivastava, Divesh},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
24 Data Integration: A Theoretical Perspective 2002 PODS 0.00055043581
117 Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions 1996 VLDB 0.00031630695
202 Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments 1995 VLDB 0.00025244649
238 Complexity of Answering Queries Using Materialized Views 1998 PODS 0.00023591683
301 Answering Queries Using Templates With Binding Patterns (Extended Abstract) 1995 PODS 0.00021682744
326 Storing Semistructured Data with STORED 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020963333
390 Conjunctive-Query Containment and Constraint Satisfaction 1998 PODS 0.00019248147
416 Semantic Data Caching and Replacement 1996 VLDB 0.00018658244
418 PREFER: A System for the Efficient Execution of Multiparametric Ranked Queries 2001 SIGMOD 0.00018617842
532 Answering Recursive Queries Using Views 1997 PODS 0.0001682881
553 Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution 2001 SIGMOD 0.0001652591
567 Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views 1996 VLDB 0.00016272161
648 Materialized Views In Oracle 1998 VLDB 0.00015151422
699 Query Containment for Conjunctive Queries With Regular Expressions 1998 PODS 0.00014686953
744 Materialized View Maintenance and Integrity Constraint Checking: Trading Space for Time 1996 SIGMOD 0.00014309622
880 Rewriting Aggregate Queries Using Views 1999 PODS 0.00013280642
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
1,052 Answering Queries Using Limited External Query Processors 1996 PODS 0.00012275281
1,054 Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables 2000 SIGMOD 0.00012269068
1,525 Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective 1997 PODS 0.00010355628
1,547 Data Warehouse Configuration 1997 VLDB 0.00010292395
1,728 Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures 1998 SIGMOD 9.7779564e-05
1,818 Deciding Containment for Queries with Complex Objects (Extended Abstract) 1997 PODS 9.5718481e-05
1,822 Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions 1995 SIGMOD 9.5664616e-05
1,853 Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment 2000 VLDB 9.5001964e-05
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
2,147 Query Decomposition and View Maintenance for Query Languages for Unstructured Data 1996 VLDB 8.9576491e-05
2,156 Obtaining Complete Answers from Incomplete Databases 1996 VLDB 8.9455055e-05
2,226 Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans 1999 VLDB 8.8033052e-05
2,287 Approximate Range Selection Queries in Peer-to-Peer Systems 2003 CIDR 8.6931935e-05
2,289 Querying Aggregate Data 1999 PODS 8.6891266e-05
2,574 Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics 1997 PODS 8.278796e-05
2,594 Computing Cores for Data Exchange: New Algorithms and Practical Solutions 2005 PODS 8.2426092e-05
2,619 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 8.2215744e-05
2,715 A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing 2004 VLDB 8.1017908e-05
3,040 Incremental and Approximate Inference for Faster Occlusion-based Deep CNN Explanations 2019 SIGMOD 7.7216143e-05
3,095 Query Containment for Data Integration Systems 2000 PODS 7.6532922e-05
3,133 Statistics on Views 2003 VLDB 7.6127492e-05
3,156 Form-Based Proxy Caching for Database-Backed Web Sites 2001 VLDB 7.5856774e-05
3,407 Quality-driven Integration of Heterogeneous Information Systems 1999 VLDB 7.328074e-05
3,447 Complete Yet Practical Search for Minimal Query Reformulations Under Constraints 2014 SIGMOD 7.2941472e-05
3,570 Attacking Diophantus: Solving a Special Case of Bag Containment 2019 PODS 7.1977783e-05
3,620 Describing and Using Query Capabilities of Heterogeneous Sources 1997 VLDB 7.1548155e-05
3,850 QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP 2003 SIGMOD 6.9801117e-05
3,870 On the Complexity of the Containment Problem for Conjunctive Queries with Built-in Predicates 1998 PODS 6.9551842e-05
3,960 On Efficiently Implementing SchemaSQL on a SQL Database System 1999 VLDB 6.8958644e-05
4,066 Rewriting XPath Queries Using Materialized Views 2005 VLDB 6.8221983e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
147 On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00029019485
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
551 Computing Queries from Derived Relations 1985 VLDB 0.000165527
567 Answering Queries with Aggregation Using Views 1996 VLDB 0.00016272161
577 The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence 1994 VLDB 0.00016118789
642 The Complexity of Querying Indefinite Data about Linearly Ordered Domains (Preliminary Version) 1992 PODS 0.00015243164
875 Queries Independent of Updates 1993 VLDB 0.00013316445
979 On the Equivalence of Recursive and Nonrecursive Datalog Programs 1992 PODS 0.00012729663
1,822 Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinitions 1995 SIGMOD 9.5664616e-05
1,876 Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments 1994 SIGMOD 9.4539144e-05
3,533 Data Replication for Mobile Computers 1994 SIGMOD 7.2258575e-05
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