Object-Oriented Database Support for Software Environments

Summary: Cactus is an object-oriented, multi-user DBMS for software environments, focusing on efficient handling of functionally-defined data in Unix/C. It uses attributed-graph dependency management, supports extensible type hierarchies, and provides rollback and versioning for evolving software data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2430
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 6.0773173e-05
Overall Rank: 5,817 | 60.10%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38763

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Scott E Hudson (University of Arizona)
2. Roger King (University of Colorado)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hudson_sigmod87,
        title = {{Object-Oriented Database Support for Software Environments}},
        author = {Hudson, Scott E and King, Roger},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38763},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38763},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,662	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00010075123
2,229	The Performance and Utility of the Cactis Implementation Algorithms	1990	VLDB	8.9030801e-05
2,975	Monitoring Database Objects	1989	VLDB	7.9077995e-05
6,546	FaceKit: A Database Interface Design Toolkit	1989	VLDB	5.8450336e-05
8,565	Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System	1987	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
13,157	Managing Knowledge about Information System Evolution	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
283	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00022377907
1,449	Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model	1982	VLDB	0.00010749899
3,289	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.5556715e-05

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