Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata

Summary: Presents four formal dominance definitions to measure relative information capacity of relational schemata (with/without key deps). Proves query-accessibility too coarse; dependency-free schemata equivalent only if identical up to renaming/reordering, informing rigorous schema integration/translation. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h685e44e8d1f412b8
Venue: PODS
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.00018486061
Overall Rank: 425 | 97.15%
DOI: 10.1145/588011.588027

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Richard Hull (University of Southern California)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hull_pods84,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '84},
        title = {{Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588011.588027},
        doi = {10.1145/588011.588027},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Hull, Richard},
        year = {1984}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
366	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019923978
718	PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE DATABASE UPDATE LANGUAGES (Extended Abstract)	1988	PODS	0.00014530776
793	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013942384
1,003	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00012597028
1,458	Inverting Schema Mappings	2006	PODS	0.00010585133
1,525	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010355628
1,595	The Use of Information Capacity in Schema Integration and Translation	1993	VLDB	0.00010131081
1,667	Bootstrapping Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems	2008	SIGMOD	9.9378851e-05
1,728	Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures	1998	SIGMOD	9.7779564e-05
1,759	Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management	2003	SIGMOD	9.7107065e-05
1,767	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.6939822e-05
2,158	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.941016e-05
2,292	Finitely Representable Databases	1994	PODS	8.6854411e-05
2,968	On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types	1988	PODS	7.8013847e-05
3,065	A Formal View Integration Method	1986	SIGMOD	7.6884149e-05
3,502	An Information-Theoretic Approach to Normal Forms for Relational and XML Data	2003	PODS	7.2525074e-05
4,811	On the Expressive Power of the Logical Data Model	1985	SIGMOD	6.4040053e-05
5,224	On the Correctness of Representing Extended Entity-Relationship Structures in the Relational Model	1989	SIGMOD	6.2208977e-05
5,747	Conjunctive Query Equivalence of Keyed Relational Schemas (Extended Abstract)	1997	PODS	6.0083342e-05
6,736	Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding	2005	VLDB	5.6928321e-05
6,799	A Multi-Resolution Relational Data Model	1992	VLDB	5.6796812e-05
7,178	Designing Information-Preserving Mapping Schemes for XML	2005	VLDB	5.5932941e-05
8,151	Schema Independent Relational Learning	2017	SIGMOD	5.3899758e-05
8,504	Equivalence of Views by Query Capacity	1985	PODS	5.3288219e-05
10,714	SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,985	Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search	2021	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,969	On Redundancy vs Dependency Preservation in Normalization: An Information-Theoretic Study of 3NF	2006	PODS	4.9793485e-05
13,252	MDM: a Multiple-Data-Model Tool for the Management of Heterogeneous Database Schemes	1997	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,303	Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures	1995	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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	0.00059996338
144	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029097107
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018328281
1,073	Constructing Superviews	1981	SIGMOD	0.00012163751
1,208	Towards a Sound View Integration Methodology	1983	PODS	0.00011538101
3,510	LAURA: A Formal Data Model and Her Logical Design Methodology	1983	VLDB	7.2468609e-05

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