Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM)

Summary: ORM enables object models to persist in relational DBs with transactional guarantees, encoded as constraints in application code. It analyzes Hibernate (Java OSS) and Microsoft EDM for .NET, highlighting ORM’s role in safe, multithreaded web apps and race-condition avoidance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4160
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.6445692e-05
Overall Rank: 7,323 | 49.76%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376773

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Elizabeth (Betty) O'Neil (University of Massachusetts Boston)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{oneil_sigmod08,
        title = {{Object/Relational Mapping 2008: Hibernate and the Entity Data Model (EDM)}},
        author = {O'Neil, Elizabeth (Betty)},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376773},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376773},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,547	Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction	2025	CIDR	6.1790655e-05
7,293	JSON Relational Duality: A Revolutionary Combination of Document, Object, and Relational Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.6533762e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
762	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014231163
2,464	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.5480977e-05
2,908	Anatomy of the ADO.NET Entity Framework	2007	SIGMOD	7.9732153e-05

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