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Most database systems currently on the market are based on the relational paradigm, which was proposed by Codd in 1970 (Codd, 1970), with the main purpose of overcoming the typical flaws of the database systems of that period, among which was the inability to provide data independence, that is, the separation between the logical view of the model from its physical implementation.
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Guida, G., Lamperti, G., Zanella, M. (1999). The Relational Layer. In: Software Prototyping in Data and Knowledge Engineering. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 497. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4267-0_6
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