Object-Relational Database Systems: Principles, Products, and Challenges (Tutorial)

Summary: Tutorial-style survey of object-relational DB systems; reviews products and the SQL3 path to full OR features. Key OR features—abstract types, UDFs, row types, references, inheritance, triggers—with real-system examples and SQL3 drafts. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2973
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 4.8069136e-05
Overall Rank: 7,183 | 50.03%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,216	On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS	1998	SIGMOD	9.2699038e-05
4,569	User-Defined Table Operators: Enhancing Extensibility for ORDBMS	1999	VLDB	6.0782978e-05
12,389	Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine	2008	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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