G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion

Summary: G-WHIZ extends QBE with a visual interface for the functional data model, minimizing explicit joins through set- and entity-valued functions. It integrates recursive definition/querying of structures such as part hierarchies, targeting CAD/CAM DBMSs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h7e03cd28e740c26c
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 8.0530555e-05
Overall Rank: 2,756 | 81.48%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Sandra Heiler (Computer Corporation of America)
2. Arnon Rosenthal (Computer Corporation of America)

BibTeX Citation

@article{heiler_vldb85,
        title = {{G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion}},
        author = {Heiler, Sandra and Rosenthal, Arnon},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
225	Traversal Recursion: A Practical Approach to Supporting Recursive Applications	1986	SIGMOD	0.00023995155
305	A Graphical Query Language Supporting Recursion	1987	SIGMOD	0.0002159111
2,253	PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases	1996	VLDB	8.7476573e-05
6,164	A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces	1990	SIGMOD	5.86403e-05
6,368	Towards a Unified Visual Database Access	1993	SIGMOD	5.8092399e-05
13,492	An Extended Relational Database System and It's Application to Management of Logic Diagrams	1986	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 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	0.00059996338
549	Non First Normal Form Relations To Represent Hierarchically Organized Data	1984	PODS	0.00016563595
5,887	An Example of Knowledge-Based Query Processing in a CAD/CAM DBMS	1984	VLDB	5.9577938e-05

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