Everything about Relational database

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Relational databaseA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: VeDB: A Software and Hardware Enabled Trusted Relational DatabaseInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangéeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Relational databaseCited 214 times
5. Go sideways: Relational modelA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: First normal formA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Relational database

  E. F. Codd · 1982 · Communications of the ACM · 214 citations

• Equivalence of Relational Database Schemes

  Catriel Beeri, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Yehoshua Sagiv · 1981 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 50 citations

• Relational Database Systemsr

  Won Kim · 1979 · ACM Computing Surveys · 33 citations

• Relational database and graph database: A comparative analysis

  Surajit Medhi, Hemanta Baruah · 2017 · Journal of Process Management. New Technologies · 22 citations

• An object-oriented relational database

  William J. Premerlani, James E. Rumbaugh, Michael R. Blaha · 1990 · Communications of the ACM · 17 citations

• Hierarchical to relational database migration

  A. Meier, R. Dippold, J. Mercerat · 1994 · IEEE Software · 11 citations

• Neutrosophic Relational Database Decomposition

  Meena Arora, Ranjit Biswas, Dr. U.S.Pandey · 2011 · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · 9 citations

• Translating a Distributed Relational Database to a Document Database

  Muon Ha, Yulia Shichkina · 2022 · Data Science and Engineering · 9 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• VeDB: A Software and Hardware Enabled Trusted Relational Database

  Xinying Yang, Ruide Zhang, Cong Yue · 2023 · Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 46 citations

• Comparative Analysis of Relational Database Watermarking Techniques: An Empirical Study

  Sapana Rani, Raju Halder · 2022 · IEEE Access · 30 citations

• Ontology learning from relational database: a review

  Rosalba Mosca, Massimo De Santo, Rosario Gaeta · 2023 · Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing · 15 citations

• Flexible Resource Allocation for Relational Database-as-a-Service

  Pankaj Arora, Surajit Chaudhuri, Sudipto Das · 2023 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 11 citations

• SchemaPile: A Large Collection of Relational Database Schemas

  Till Döhmen, Radu Geacu, Madelon Hulsebos · 2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangéeSimone de Beauvoir · 1900
• SQL for DummiesAllen G. Taylor, Reinhard Engel · 1993
• Oracle PL/SQL LanguageSteven Feuerstein · 1999
• SQLJonathan Gennick, Alice Zhao · 2004
• Database system conceptsAbraham Silberschatz · 1997
• SQL all-in-one for dummiesAllen G. Taylor · 2011
• OracleGeorge Koch, Kevin Loney · 1990
• Learning SQLAlan Beaulieu · 2005

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