A Model Of Queries For Object-Oriented Databases

Summary: Comprehensive OO query model aligned with class hierarchy and nested objects; richer than relational/nested-relational query models. A practical subset is implemented as a query language in ORION, demonstrating adoption in an OO DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7922
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 0.00021083007
Overall Rank: 524 | 96.36%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Won Kim

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
271	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00029452935
466	Querying and Updating the File*	1993	VLDB	0.00022453592
845	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.0001599936
2,105	A Performance Evaluation of Pointer-Based Joins	1990	SIGMOD	9.5347454e-05
2,398	Containment and Minimization of Positive Conjunctive Queries in OODB's (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	8.8973978e-05
4,563	MultiView: A Methodology for Supporting Multiple Views in Object-Oriented Databases	1992	VLDB	6.084439e-05
5,101	Semantic Queries with Pictures: The VIMSYS Model	1991	VLDB	5.6995265e-05
5,223	A Temporal Evolutionary Object-Oriented Data Model and Its Query Language for Medical Image Management	1992	VLDB	5.6205011e-05
6,225	Access to Objects by Path Expressions and Rules	1994	VLDB	5.1495388e-05
6,473	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.0509826e-05
8,570	Semi-determinism (extended abstract)	1992	PODS	4.4937074e-05
12,771	Implementing Abstract Objects with Inheritance in Datalogneg	1997	VLDB	4.1945683e-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
44	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00071838587
68	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00060795269
85	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00053428612
97	Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations	1982	PODS	0.0005080702
422	Non First Normal Form Relations To Represent Hierarchically Organized Data	1984	PODS	0.00023677809
451	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.0002281305
974	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00014896625
4,411	An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases	1988	VLDB	6.2071929e-05

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