The Term Retrieval Abstract Machine

Summary: TRAM compiles navigation and predicate evaluation for heterogeneous complex objects into a specialized abstract machine, reducing traversal costs. Demonstrated on FTDM with partial evaluation of a tuned interpreter; generalizes to other complex data models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb03e59bcbebde5a8
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 13,376 | 10.07%
DOI: 10.1145/130283.130309

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Authors

1. Michael Ley (University of Trier)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ley_sigmod92,
        title = {{The Term Retrieval Abstract Machine}},
        author = {Ley, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/130283.130309},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130309},
        year = {1992}
}

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46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044784799
354	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020222123
843	Exploiting Inheritance and Structure Semantics for Effective Clustering and Buffering in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013533222
1,727	A Stochastic Approach for Clustering in Object Bases	1991	SIGMOD	9.7855178e-05
2,270	The Performance and Utility of the Cactis Implementation Algorithms	1990	VLDB	8.7153486e-05
2,366	Efficient Assembly of Complex Objects	1991	SIGMOD	8.5648664e-05
6,006	Effective Clustering Of Complex Objects In Object-Oriented Databases	1991	SIGMOD	5.9160673e-05

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