A Data Management Extension Architecture

Summary: Proposes a modular extension architecture for DBMSs enabling plug-in data management extensions via storage methods and attachments. Defines generic operation sets and coordination services to add new storage or attachment types, with implementation notes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h82f24d90c6c342aa
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 0.00010741047
Overall Rank: 1,411 | 90.52%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38739

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Bruce Lindsay (IBM)
2. John McPherson (IBM)
3. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lindsay_sigmod87,
        title = {{A Data Management Extension Architecture}},
        author = {Lindsay, Bruce and McPherson, John and Pirahesh, Hamid},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38739},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38739},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
196	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025626873
273	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00022504729
581	Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS	1991	VLDB	0.00015984359
2,531	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.3351949e-05
2,678	Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric Applications	1989	VLDB	8.1456214e-05
2,992	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.7729638e-05
3,118	The Starburst Long Field Manager	1989	VLDB	7.6320988e-05
3,209	Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer	1988	VLDB	7.5364911e-05
3,241	Locking and Latching in a Memory-Resident Database System	1992	VLDB	7.4996708e-05
3,530	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.2276073e-05
3,956	Enforcing Inclusion Dependencies and Referential Integrity	1988	VLDB	6.9003868e-05
4,432	PRIMA - a DBMS Prototype Supporting Engineering Applications	1987	VLDB	6.601596e-05
5,122	An Incremental Join Attachment for Starburst	1990	VLDB	6.2643185e-05
5,604	Managing Temporal Financial Data in an Extensible Database	1993	VLDB	6.0697862e-05
6,602	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.7397128e-05
6,944	A Signature Access Method for the Starburst Database System	1989	VLDB	5.6379318e-05
13,343	Using the Co-existence Approach to Achieve Combined Functionality of Object-Oriented and Relational Systems	1993	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,399	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	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
2	R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching	1984	SIGMOD	0.001992968
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049142315
291	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00021951101

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