Function Materialization in Object Bases

Summary: Introduces function materialization in object bases, leveraging classification, object identity, and encapsulation to lower rematerialization costs. Provides a GOM-based quantitative study and positions function materialization as a complement to Access Support Relation indexing for heavily traversed path expressions along attribute chains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2596
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,108 | 10.07%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115833

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Authors

1. Alfons Kemper (University of Karlsruhe)
2. Christoph Kilger (University of Karlsruhe)
3. Guido Moerkotte (University of Karlsruhe)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kemper_sigmod91,
        title = {{Function Materialization in Object Bases}},
        author = {Kemper, Alfons and Kilger, Christoph and Moerkotte, Guido},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115833},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115833},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,923	Optimizing Boolean Expressions in Object Bases	1992	VLDB	7.9578414e-05
4,413	A Blackboard Architecture for Query Optimization in Object Bases	1993	VLDB	6.7168289e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
39	Efficiently Updating Materialized Views	1986	SIGMOD	0.00047309646
146	On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00029540467
283	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00022377907
707	A Performance Analysis of View Materialization Strategies	1987	SIGMOD	0.00014771849
1,462	Advanced Query Processing in Object Bases Using Access Support Relations	1990	VLDB	0.00010701465
1,816	A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures	1988	VLDB	9.6840978e-05
2,284	Access Support in Object Bases	1990	SIGMOD	8.8086905e-05
4,724	Processing Queries Against Database Procedures: A Performance Analysis	1988	SIGMOD	6.5378287e-05

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