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Making Smalltalk a Database System

Summary: Smalltalk-based system fuses OO programming with a set-theoretic data model to boost database app modeling. GemStone data model and OPAL supply path expressions, declarative semantics, and object history, addressing concurrency and past-states. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2258
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1984
Pagerank
0.00053428612
Overall Rank
85 | 99.42%
DOI
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96 A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications 1978 SIGMOD 0.00050819255
162 Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation 1977 SIGMOD 0.00039758372
201 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.00034943762
641 The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN 1979 SIGMOD 0.00018757269
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