Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store

Summary: Architectural proposal for a persistent object store with explicit multi-level storage. Supports very large object bases with time-critical data in RAM, rest on disk and tertiary/remote levels (potentially more than three), and includes a sketch of a multi-level query optimizer. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2570
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 8.1890257e-05
Overall Rank: 2,737 | 81.23%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115791

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod91,
        title = {{Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115791},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115791},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
132	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030378624
3,760	Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases	1995	VLDB	7.1460125e-05
4,127	The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects	1992	SIGMOD	6.8852658e-05
5,845	Tapes Hold Data, Too: Challenges of Tuples on Tertiary Store	1993	SIGMOD	6.0681186e-05
6,400	Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring	2007	CIDR	5.8864351e-05
7,675	Random I/O Scheduling in Online Tertiary Storage Systems	1996	SIGMOD	5.5686377e-05
8,768	Vertical Data Migration in Large Near-Line Document Archives Based on Markov-Chain Predictions	1997	VLDB	5.3766157e-05
12,806	Capacity Bound-free Web Warehouse	2003	CIDR	5.093636e-05
13,040	Investigation of Algebraic Query Optimisation for Database Programming Languages	1994	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00083340894
52	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00041107291
583	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00016145442
667	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00015166269
837	Exploiting Inheritance and Structure Semantics for Effective Clustering and Buffering in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.0001370733
1,355	Query Processing in Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	SIGMOD	0.0001105702
3,469	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.3893582e-05

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