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O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model

Summary: Formal description of O2, an object-oriented DBMS by the Altaïr group. A type system within a set-and-tuple framework models inheritance and enforces strong typing, providing rigorous OO semantics for data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2421
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1988
Pagerank
0.00018939398
Overall Rank
630 | 95.62%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
352 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026299604
603 A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS 1988 SIGMOD 0.00019351031
669 F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme 1989 SIGMOD 0.00018430212
722 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00017547917
1,297 Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications 1991 SIGMOD 0.00012758233
1,303 The O2 Database Programming Language 1989 VLDB 0.00012693967
1,468 ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model 1989 SIGMOD 0.00011846499
1,799 A Logic for Object-Oriented Logic Programming (Maier's O-Logic Revisited) 1989 PODS 0.0001051612
2,627 Aspects: Extending Objects to Support Multiple, Independent Roles 1991 SIGMOD 8.4241452e-05
2,768 Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases 1989 PODS 8.1473167e-05
3,189 On Accessing Object-Oriented Databases: Expressive Power, Complexity, and Restrictions 1989 SIGMOD 7.4116834e-05
3,205 Integrating Object-Oriented Data Modeling with a Rule-Based Programming Paradigm 1990 SIGMOD 7.3867679e-05
3,221 The O2 Object Manager: an Overview 1989 VLDB 7.3513857e-05
5,101 Semantic Queries with Pictures: The VIMSYS Model 1991 VLDB 5.6995265e-05
6,473 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.0509826e-05
6,791 Semantic Modeling of Object Oriented Databases 1991 VLDB 4.9250521e-05
12,771 Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalogneg 1997 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,819 Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures 1995 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,873 Towards a Formal Approach for Object Database Design 1993 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,931 The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C 1990 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,965 Management Of Complex Objects As Dynamic Forms 1988 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
85 Making Smalltalk a Database System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00053428612
440 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00023084404
485 A New Approach to Database Logic 1984 PODS 0.00022085103
2,663 Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis 1987 SIGMOD 8.3512771e-05
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