Composite Objects Revisted

Summary: Presents a general IS-PART-OF model for composite objects, avoiding reference overload and addressing shortcomings of the KIM87b/ORION approach. Extends composite objects as a unit for versions, clustering and concurrency, with authorization semantics, updating prior results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2516
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 9.6781145e-05
Overall Rank: 1,821 | 87.51%
DOI: 10.1145/67544.66958

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Authors

1. Won Kim (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
2. Elisa Bertino (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)
3. Jorge F. Garza (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kim_sigmod89,
        title = {{Composite Objects Revisted}},
        author = {Kim, Won and Bertino, Elisa and Garza, Jorge F.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '89},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/67544.66958},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67544.66958},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
570	The GMAP: A Versatile Tool for Physical Data Independence	1994	VLDB	0.00016328445
4,951	A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language	1991	VLDB	6.4310179e-05
6,464	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.8714103e-05
7,535	Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases	1990	VLDB	5.6029996e-05
9,037	On Correctly Configuring Versioned Objects	1989	VLDB	5.3270943e-05
12,985	Modeling Design Versions	1996	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,016	A Product Specification Database for Visual Prototyping	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,062	Versions of Simple and Composite Objects	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,067	Towards a Formal Approach for Object Database Design	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 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
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
599	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015910762
1,408	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00010855344
7,343	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.6383799e-05

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