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ARIEL - A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs.

Robert M. MacGregor: ARIEL - A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs. VLDB 1985: 305-315
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/Gregor85,
  author    = {Robert M. MacGregor},
  editor    = {Alain Pirotte and
               Yannis Vassiliou},
  title     = {ARIEL - A Semantic Front-End to Relational DBMSs},
  booktitle = {VLDB'85, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 21-23, 1985, Stockholm, Sweden},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1985},
  pages     = {305-315},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/Gregor85.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/85},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

This paper introduces the query language ARIEL,a language which retains the formal precision of relational languages such as SQL and QUEL, while exploiting the greater expressiveness of a semantic data model. ARIEL has been implemented as a front-end query language to several relational database systems, including to a front-end distributed DBMS being developed at SDC.

The most noteworthy elements of ARIEL are (1) a flexible syntax for expressing subqueries, (2) a convenient way to express "outer-joins" within a non-procedural framework (without the use of"'null values"), (3) a comprehensive set of rules for defining the semantics of "reference chains", (4)a "light-weight" view mechanism, and (5) a clean semantics for expressing aggregate functions, especially in combination with the "group by" operator.

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