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What (who) is relational calculus - definition

THEORY OF RELATIONAL DATABASES
Relational Calculus

relational calculus         
<database> An operational methodolgy, founded on {predicate calculus}, dealing with descripitive expressions that are equivalent to the operations of relational algebra. {Codd's reduction algorithm} can convert from relational calculus to relational algebra. Two forms of the relational calculus exist: the {tuple calculus} and the domain calculus. ["An Introduction To Database Systems" (6th ed), C. J. Date, Addison Wesley]. (1998-10-05)
Relational calculus         
The relational calculus consists of two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that are part of the relational model for databases and provide a declarative way to specify database queries. The raison d'être of the relational calculus is the formalization of query optimization, which is finding more efficient manners to execute the same query.
Domain relational calculus         
CALCULUS FOR THE RELATIONAL DATA MODEL
Domain calculus
In computer science, domain relational calculus (DRC) is a calculus that was introduced by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte as a declarative database query language for the relational data model.Michel Lacroix, Alain Pirotte: Domain-Oriented Relational Languages.

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Relational calculus

The relational calculus consists of two calculi, the tuple relational calculus and the domain relational calculus, that is part of the relational model for databases and provide a declarative way to specify database queries. The raison d'être of relational calculus is the formalization of query optimization, which is finding more efficient manners to execute the same query in a database.

The relational calculus is similar to the relational algebra, which is also part of the relational model: While the relational calculus is meant as a declarative language which prescribes no execution order on the subexpressions of a relational calculus expression, the relational algebra is meant as an imperative language: the sub-expressions of a relational algebraic expression are meant to be executed from left-to-right and inside-out following their nesting.

Per Codd's theorem, the relational algebra and the domain-independent relational calculus are logically equivalent.