Querying and Updating the File

Summary: Introduces structuring schemas that combine an annotated grammar with a database schema, enabling database-language querying and updating of structured files. Defines bidirectional translation between strings and databases and adapts relational optimization techniques. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hb06c68868152469f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 0.00012393891
Overall Rank: 1,026 | 93.13%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Serge Abiteboul (INRIA)
2. Sophie Cluet (INRIA)
3. Tova Milo (INRIA; University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{abiteboul_vldb93,
        title = {{Querying and Updating the File}},
        author = {Abiteboul, Serge and Cluet, Sophie and Milo, Tova},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
401	Query Caching and Optimization in Distributed Mediator Systems	1996	SIGMOD	0.00019080589
585	From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities	1994	SIGMOD	0.00015926244
589	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00015887069
1,258	Semistructured Data	1997	PODS	0.00011301839
1,925	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	9.3502949e-05
2,297	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	8.6659442e-05
2,646	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.157239e-05
2,774	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	8.0142194e-05
3,640	Efficient Maintenance of Materialized Mediated Views (Extended Abstract)	1995	SIGMOD	7.1242859e-05
3,673	A Database Interface for File Update	1995	SIGMOD	7.0922969e-05
4,457	OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database	1994	VLDB	6.576916e-05
4,732	DTD-Directed Publishing with Attribute Translation Grammars	2002	VLDB	6.4311491e-05
5,777	Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	5.9810913e-05
6,461	Expressiveness of Structured Document Query Languages Based on Attribute Grammars (extended abstract)	1998	PODS	5.7605327e-05
7,711	An Open Abstract-Object Storage System	1996	SIGMOD	5.4563875e-05
12,336	Alpine: Efficient In situ Data Exploration in the Presence of Updates	2017	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,094	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,210	Storage and Retrieval of XML Data Using Relational Databases	2001	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,359	Tutorial: Languages for Collection Types	1994	PODS	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
368	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019850502
1,102	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00011993605
1,167	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011696774
1,260	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011293794
4,543	Functional and Predicative programming in OODB's	1992	PODS	6.537435e-05

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