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Language peer sets for ISBL:
United Kingdom
United Kingdom/1974
Designed 1974
1970s languages
Fourth generation
High Cold War
Genus RDBMs
RDBMs
DBMS
Data representation
RDBMs/1974
DBMS/1974
Data representation/1974
RDBMs/United Kingdom
DBMS/United Kingdom
Data representation/United Kingdom

ISBL(ID:2122/isb001)

IBM Peterlee experimental relational algebra 

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Country: United Kingdom
Designed 1974
Genus: RDBMs


for Information System Base Language

Stephen Todd, Peterlee UK, 1976

Mathematical query language using infix notation for the PRTV (Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle).

The first relational query language.

First database to be defined with the VDL

Language could be extended with PL/I functions


Related languages
ISBL BS12   Influence
ISBL PRTV   Commercialisation of
ISBL SEQUEL   Influence
ISBL STREMA   Influence

References:
  • Hall, P. (1974) Hall, P. "Common subexpression identification in general algebraic systems", Rep. UKSC-60, IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, England, Nov. 1974.
  • Hall, P., & Todd, S (1974) Hall, P., & Todd, S "Factorization of algebraic expressions", Rep. UKSC-55, IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, England, April 1974.
  • Todd, S. (1974) Todd, S. "Implementing the join operator in relational data bases", IBM Scientific Center Technical Note 15, Nov. 1974, IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, England.
  • Hall, P. (1975) Hall, P. "Optimisation of single relational expressions in a relational data base system", Rep. UKSC-76, IBM UK Scientific Centre,Peterlee, England, June 1975.
  • Hall, P. A. V.; Hitchcock, P. and S. J. P. Todd. (1975) Hall, P. A. V.; Hitchcock, P. and S. J. P. Todd. "An Algebra of Relations for Machine Computation"
          in [POPL 1975] (1975) [ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN] Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages 1975, Palo Alto, California
  • Hansal, A. (1976) Hansal, A. "A Formal Definition of a Relational Data Base System", IBM (Peterlee,UK) UKSCOO80, June 1976.
          in [POPL 1975] (1975) [ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN] Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages 1975, Palo Alto, California
  • Hitchcock, Peter User Extensions to the Peterlee R (1976) Hitchcock, Peter User Extensions to the Peterlee Relational Test Vehicle. VLDB 1976: 169-180 Abstract
          in [POPL 1975] (1975) [ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN] Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages 1975, Palo Alto, California
  • Todd, S. J. P. (1976) Todd, S. J. P. "The Peterlee relational test vehicle - a system overview" Extract: VDL and PRTV
          in [IBM] (1976) IBM Systems Journal, 15(4), 1976
  • Verhofstad, J. (1976) Verhofstad, J. "The PRTV optimizer: the current state", IBM Scientific Center Report: UKSC-83, May 1976, IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, England.
          in [IBM] (1976) IBM Systems Journal, 15(4), 1976
  • Verhofstad, J., and S. Todd. (1976) Verhofstad, J., and S. Todd. "Cost prediction for database query optimization", IBM Scientific Center Technical Note 52, IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, England.
          in [IBM] (1976) IBM Systems Journal, 15(4), 1976
  • Todd, S. (1977) Todd, S. "Relational database research at the IBM UK Scientific Centre, Peterlee, a survey 1970--1977", IBM Scientific Center Report: UKSC-93, Dec. 1977.
          in [IBM] (1976) IBM Systems Journal, 15(4), 1976
  • Dines Bjorner & Hans Henrik Lbvengreen (1982) Dines Bjorner & Hans Henrik Lbvengreen "Formalization Of Database Systems - And A Formal Definition Of IMS" in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 338 Mexico City, September, 1982 Extract: VDL and PRTV
          in [IBM] (1976) IBM Systems Journal, 15(4), 1976
  • Hall, Patrick A. V. (1984) Hall, Patrick A. V. "Relational algebras, logic, and functional programming" Extract: Introduction
          in Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD International C (1984) Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1984), ACM SIGMOD Rec. 14, 2 (1984)
  • Linnemann, V. et al (1988) Linnemann, V. et al "Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions" Extract: PRTV and PL/I
          in [Proceedings] (1988) Proceedings of the 14th VLDB Conference Los Angeles, California 1988
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