On the equivalence of logical databases

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel M. Kuper;Jeffrey D. Ullman;Moshe Y. Vardi

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California;Stanford University, Stanford, California;IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, California

  • Venue:
  • PODS '84 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

We suggest a new approach to database updates, in which a database is treated as a collection of theories. We investigate two issues: a) equivalence of databases under update operations, b) simultaneous multiple update operations.