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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
2320
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1984
Pagerank
0.00029474235
Overall Rank
147 | 99.00%
DOI
10.1145/602259.602300

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{copeland_sigmod84,
        title = {{Making Smalltalk a Database System}},
        author = {Copeland, George and Maier, David},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602300},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602300},
        year = {1984}
}

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