| 1981 | Digital B-Trees | David B. Lomet |
| 1981 | DSIS - A Database System with Interrelational Semantics | Y. Edmund Lien, Jonathan E. Shopiro, Shalom Tsur |
| 1981 | Information Systems Design Approach Integrating Data and Transactions | Michel Lonard, B. T. Luong |
| 1981 | A Transformational Framework for the Automatic Control of Derived Data | Shaye Koenig, Robert Paige |
| 1981 | QUIST: A System for Semantic Query Optimization in Relational Databases | Jonathan J. King |
| 1981 | Data Model Theory Meets a Practical Application | William Kent |
| 1981 | Reduced Cover-Trees and their Application in the Sabre Access Path Model | Kjell Karlsson |
| 1981 | On Representing Incomplete Information in a Relational Data Base | Tomasz Imielinski, Witold Lipski Jr. |
| 1981 | Theoretical and Practical Tools for Data Base Design | Jean-Luc Hainaut |
| 1981 | The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations (Invited Paper) | Jim Gray |
| 1981 | Constraints on Null Values in Relational Databases | Billie S. Goldstein |
| 1981 | Impacts of Logic and Databases (Invited Paper) | Herv Gallaire |
| 1981 | A Theory of Correct Locking Protocols for Database Systems | Donald S. Fussell, Zvi M. Kedem, Abraham Silberschatz |
| 1981 | Application of DBMS to Land Information Systems | Andrew U. Frank |
| 1981 | User Interfaces for Pictorial Data Bases | C. Fields |
| 1981 | A Compression Technique for Large Statistical Data-Bases | Susan J. Eggers, Frank Olken, Arie Shoshani |
| 1981 | A Performance Evaluation of Data Base Machine Architectures (Invited Paper) | David J. DeWitt, Paula B. Hawthorn |
| 1981 | Referential Integrity | C. J. Date |
| 1981 | Data Dictionaries: An Assessment of Current Practice and Problems | Robert M. Curtice |
| 1981 | Join Graphs and Acyclic Database Schemes | Karen Chase |
| 1981 | SUBJECT: A Directory Driven System for Organizing and Accessing Large Statistical Databases | Paul Chan, Arie Shoshani |
| 1981 | A History of System R and SQL/Data System (Invited Paper) | Donald D. Chamberlin, A. M. Gilbert, Robert A. Yost |
| 1981 | Deferring Updates in a Relational Data Base System | Stephanie J. Cammarata |
| 1981 | A Database Approach to Modelling and Managing Security Information | U. Bussolati, Giancarlo Martella |
| 1981 | On Modelling Behavioural Semantics of Databases | Michael L. Brodie |