The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN

Summary: PLAIN merges programming-language concepts with DBMS ideas to support information systems. It provides a relational definitional facility with low/high-level operations, plus type checking and iteration; implementation status is described. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he6d0aab27a34728b
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1979
Pagerank: 0.00012003564
Overall Rank: 1,104 | 92.58%
DOI: 10.1145/582095.582106

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Anthony I. Wasserman (University of California San Francisco)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wasserman_sigmod79,
        title = {{The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN}},
        author = {Wasserman, Anthony I.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582106},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582106},
        year = {1979}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028930192
952	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012881214
1,126	Quel As A Data Type	1984	SIGMOD	0.00011920289
1,689	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8628503e-05
1,775	Molecular Objects, Abstract Data Types, and Data Models: A Framework	1984	VLDB	9.6681333e-05
2,535	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	8.3333538e-05
3,822	DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications	1980	SIGMOD	7.0039736e-05
13,545	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,558	Semantics of Network Data Manipulation Languages: An Object-Oriented Approach	1982	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
263	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00022811354
1,326	An Architecture For High-Level Language Database Extensions	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011007547

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