DBridge: Translating Imperative Code to SQL

Summary: Static analysis and transformations convert imperative data logic into SQL, enabling push-down. IntelliJ plugin demonstrates gains pushing work to the database, reducing round trips, and enabling imperative-to-SQL translations not supported before. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h91f9a7f619a38ad6
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.5272264e-05
Overall Rank: 7,438 | 50.00%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3058747

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. K. Venkatesh Emani (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
2. Karthik Ramachandra (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai; Microsoft)
3. Tejas Deshpande (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai; Microsoft)
4. S. Sudarshan (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{emani_sigmod17,
        title = {{DBridge: Translating Imperative Code to SQL}},
        author = {Emani, K. Venkatesh and Ramachandra, Karthik and Deshpande, Tejas and Sudarshan, S.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3058747},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3058747},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
896	Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database	2018	VLDB	0.00013209291
1,786	Procedural Extensions of SQL: Understanding their usage in the wild	2021	VLDB	9.6326265e-05
2,207	Magpie: Python at Speed and Scale using Cloud Backends	2021	CIDR	8.8487039e-05
5,230	Babelfish: Efficient Execution of Polyglot Queries	2022	VLDB	6.2189001e-05
6,190	Fine-Grained Lineage for Safer Notebook Interactions	2021	VLDB	5.8565828e-05
8,345	MONSOON: Multi-Step Optimization and Execution of Queries with Partially Obscured Predicates	2020	SIGMOD	5.3511996e-05
9,588	The Key to Effective UDF Optimization: Before Inlining, First Perform Outlining	2025	VLDB	5.156809e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,993	Extracting Equivalent SQL from Imperative Code in Database Applications	2016	SIGMOD	7.7721951e-05

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