Cover Your Assets

Summary: Asset management for databases: assets are richly structured, interconnected, and often IP, beyond traditional DBs. Illustra's approach presents a concrete path for storing, linking, and exploiting complex assets at scale, highlighting new research directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2895
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,769 | 39.84%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223873

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael A. Olson (DataBlades Group; Illustra Information Technologies)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{olson_sigmod95,
        title = {{Cover Your Assets}},
        author = {Olson, Michael A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223873},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223873},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,977	A Teradata Content-Based Multimedia Object Manager for Massively Parallel Architectures	1996	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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