Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface

Summary: Introduces portals, a DBMS API for programs that browse and perform ad-hoc updates, overcoming limitations of conventional language embeddings. Portals request tuple collections in one operation and support novel concurrency-control schemes. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h9ce052f83e043adb
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 8.3333538e-05
Overall Rank: 2,535 | 82.96%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
2. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{stonebraker_vldb84,
        title = {{Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael and Rowe, Lawrence A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '84},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049142315
1,899	Tioga: Providing Data Management Support for Scientific Visualization Applications	1993	VLDB	9.4070548e-05
2,531	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.3351949e-05
2,556	Architecture and Implementation of the Darmstadt Database Kernel System	1987	SIGMOD	8.3026469e-05
4,169	The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects	1992	SIGMOD	6.7621027e-05
6,556	High Performance Sql Through Low-Level System Integration	1988	SIGMOD	5.7498641e-05
7,164	Operation Specific Locking In B-Trees	1987	PODS	5.5954112e-05
13,490	The Management of Dynamically Distributed Database Windows (Extended Abstract)	1986	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
87	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00035719146
263	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00022811354
720	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.00014528145
772	Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014085842
1,104	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012003564
1,295	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00011139704

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