Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System

Summary: LogicBlox offers a unified declarative framework (LogiQL) on Datalog for self-service systems. Key innovations: functional data structures, join processing, maintenance, live programming, concurrency control, and prescriptive/predictive analytics. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h740d13d34fb9283e
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00017773029
Overall Rank: 466 | 96.87%
DOI: 10.1145/2723372.2742796

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Molham Aref (LogicBlox)
2. Balder ten Cate (LogicBlox)
3. Todd J. Green (LogicBlox)
4. Emir Pasalic (LogicBlox)
5. Todd L. Veldhuizen (LogicBlox)
6. Benny Kimelfeld (LogicBlox)
7. Dan Olteanu (LogicBlox)
8. Geoffrey Washburn (LogicBlox)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{aref_sigmod15,
        title = {{Design and Implementation of the LogicBlox System}},
        author = {Aref, Molham and Cate, Balder ten and Green, Todd J. and Pasalic, Emir and Veldhuizen, Todd L. and Kimelfeld, Benny and Olteanu, Dan and Washburn, Geoffrey},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '15},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2723372.2742796},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2723372.2742796},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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10,822	Decisionhouse: Prescriptive Analytics in the Data Stack	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
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11,185	Fast Hypertree Decompositions via Linear Programming: Fractional and Generalized	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,203	cuMatch: A GPU-based Memory-Efficient Worst-case Optimal Join Processing Method for Subgraph Queries with Complex Patterns	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,286	Efficient and Accurate Subgraph Counting: A Bottom-up Flow-learning Based Approach	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,416	Vadacode: A Logician-friendly IDE for Datalog±	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,654	The Vadalog Parallel System: Distributed Reasoning with Datalog+/-	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,760	Scalable Reasoning on Document Stores via Instance-Aware Query Rewriting	2023	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,806	Demonstrating ADOPT: Adaptively Optimizing Attribute Orders for Worst-Case Optimal Joins via Reinforcement Learning	2023	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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
62	Maintaining Views Incrementally	1993	SIGMOD	0.00039045511
402	Worst-case Optimal Join Algorithms	2012	PODS	0.00019104625
1,051	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012279821
1,062	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.0001221201
1,245	Consistency Analysis in Bloom: a CALM and Collected Approach	2011	CIDR	0.00011353116
5,592	Datalog and Emerging Applications: An Interactive Tutorial	2011	SIGMOD	6.0736086e-05

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