A General Model for Version Management in Databases

Summary: Introduces version environments as a general abstraction for database version management, structuring object versions through graphs and partitions. Views, constraints, transactions, and embedded tools tailor environments to applications and subsume existing versioning models. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7952
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 6.3730854e-05
Overall Rank: 5,076 | 65.18%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Peter Klahold (University of Hagen)
2. Gunter Schlageter (University of Hagen)
3. Wolfgang Wilkes (University of Hagen)

BibTeX Citation

@article{klahold_vldb86,
        title = {{A General Model for Version Management in Databases}},
        author = {Klahold, Peter and Schlageter, Gunter and Wilkes, Wolfgang},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '86},
        pages = {319},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,880	Cooperative Object Buffer Management in the Advanced Information Management Prototype	1987	VLDB	6.0533041e-05
6,337	Management of Schema Evolution in Databases	1991	VLDB	5.9088067e-05
7,535	Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases	1990	VLDB	5.6029996e-05
13,106	Version Management of Composite Objects in CAD Databases	1991	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
139	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029742792
346	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020654241
988	Integration of Time Versions into a Relational Database System	1984	VLDB	0.00012809318

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2	13,106	Version Management of Composite Objects in CAD Databases	1991	SIGMOD
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4	9,037	On Correctly Configuring Versioned Objects	1989	VLDB
5	13,062	Versions of Simple and Composite Objects	1993	VLDB
6	1,191	Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases	1986	SIGMOD
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8	12,985	Modeling Design Versions	1996	VLDB
9	6,337	Management of Schema Evolution in Databases	1991	VLDB
10	3,736	Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases	1988	VLDB