Updating Relational Databases through Object-Based Views

Summary: Proposes the view-object model: object-based views on relational databases with a scheme translating updates into base relations. Enables a fixed translator at definition time, supporting dynamic query construction and persistence to the normalized schema. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4f128c222c7b54bb
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 8.1159657e-05
Overall Rank: 2,700 | 81.86%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115831

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Thierry Barsalou (IBM)
2. Arthur M. Keller (Advanced Decision Systems; Stanford University)
3. Niki Siambela (Stanford University)
4. Gio Wiederhold (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{barsalou_sigmod91,
        title = {{Updating Relational Databases through Object-Based Views}},
        author = {Barsalou, Thierry and Keller, Arthur M. and Siambela, Niki and Wiederhold, Gio},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115831},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115831},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,613	Intelligent Integration of Information	1993	SIGMOD	0.0001006836
1,808	ORCHESTRA: Rapid, Collaborative Sharing of Dynamic Data	2005	CIDR	9.5901231e-05
2,500	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.3791317e-05
2,973	Anatomy of the ADO.NET Entity Framework	2007	SIGMOD	7.7932422e-05
3,581	Efficiently Linking Text Documents with Relevant Structured Information	2006	VLDB	7.1889874e-05
4,574	Persistence Software: Bridging Object-Oriented Programming and Relational Databases	1993	SIGMOD	6.5247715e-05
7,443	JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.5239134e-05
13,003	HUX: Handling Updates in XML	2006	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,322	A Polymorphic Calculus for Views and Object Sharing	1994	PODS	4.9769913e-05
13,338	Cumulative Updates	1994	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
354	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020212701
774	Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014079981
996	Algorithms for Translating View Updates to Database Updates for Views Involving Selections, Projections, and Joins	1985	PODS	0.00012629814
2,906	Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time	1986	VLDB	7.8740247e-05

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