Title
All-Instances Restricted Chase Termination
Abstract
The chase procedure is a fundamental algorithmic tool in database theory with a variety of applications. A key problem concerning the chase procedure is all-instances termination: for a given set of tuple-generating dependencies (TGDs), is it the case that the chase terminates for every input database? In view of the fact that this problem is undecidable, it is natural to ask whether known well-behaved classes of TGDs ensure decidability. We consider here the main paradigms that led to robust TGD-based formalisms, that is, guardedness and stickiness. Although all-instances termination is well-understood for the oblivious chase, the more subtle case of the restricted (a.k.a. the standard) chase is rather unexplored. We show that all-instances restricted chase termination for guarded/sticky single-head TGDs is decidable in elementary time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3375395.3387644
SIGMOD/PODS '20: International Conference on Management of Data Portland OR USA June, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
restricted chase, chase termination, tuple-generating dependencies, guardedness, stickiness, decidability
Conference
978-1-4503-7108-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomasz Gogacz1435.80
Jerzy Marcinkowski250230.18
Andreas Pieris3117764.25