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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
2422
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1988
Pagerank
0.00018904557
Overall Rank
631 | 95.62%
DOI
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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
353 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00026275228
604 A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS 1988 SIGMOD 0.00019333115
669 F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme 1989 SIGMOD 0.00018413233
720 Object-Oriented Database Systems 1988 PODS 0.00017531889
1,294 Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications 1991 SIGMOD 0.0001274686
1,305 The O2 Database Programming Language 1989 VLDB 0.00012680785
1,550 ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model 1989 SIGMOD 0.00011396754
1,796 A Logic for Object-Oriented Logic Programming (Maier's O-Logic Revisited) 1989 PODS 0.00010505292
2,631 Aspects: Extending Objects to Support Multiple, Independent Roles 1991 SIGMOD 8.4167453e-05
2,775 Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases 1989 PODS 8.139455e-05
3,195 On Accessing Object-Oriented Databases: Expressive Power, Complexity, and Restrictions 1989 SIGMOD 7.4052272e-05
3,210 Integrating Object-Oriented Data Modeling with a Rule-Based Programming Paradigm 1990 SIGMOD 7.378759e-05
3,227 The O2 Object Manager: an Overview 1989 VLDB 7.3445433e-05
5,100 Semantic Queries with Pictures: The VIMSYS Model 1991 VLDB 5.6940372e-05
6,465 Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems 1990 PODS 5.0464278e-05
6,792 Semantic Modeling of Object Oriented Databases 1991 VLDB 4.9203196e-05
12,780 Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalogneg 1997 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,828 Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures 1995 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,883 Towards a Formal Approach for Object Database Design 1993 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,941 The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C 1990 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,975 Management Of Complex Objects As Dynamic Forms 1988 VLDB 4.1905499e-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
86 Making Smalltalk a Database System 1984 SIGMOD 0.0005348843
443 A Calculus for Complex Objects 1986 PODS 0.00023059917
485 A New Approach to Database Logic 1984 PODS 0.00022061287
2,677 Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis 1987 SIGMOD 8.3242892e-05
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