The O2 Database Programming Language

Summary: O2 is an OO database language with objects and complex values, direct operators, and encapsulated persistence. Includes subtyping, inheritance, and static type-checking, plus exception handling; compares O2 to other OO DB systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8112
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 9.9805695e-05
Overall Rank: 1,697 | 88.36%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. C. Lécluse (Groupement d'intérêt public Altair)
2. P. Richard (Groupement d'intérêt public Altair)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lecluse_vldb89,
        title = {{The O2 Database Programming Language}},
        author = {Lécluse, C. and Richard, P.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '89},
        pages = {411--422},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
403	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.0001907249
1,145	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011987662
2,505	A Transformation-Based Approach to Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages	1992	SIGMOD	8.4960641e-05
3,488	The O2 Object Manager: an Overview	1989	VLDB	7.3679662e-05
5,015	Reactors: A Case for Predictable, Virtualized Actor Database Systems	2018	SIGMOD	6.4000528e-05
8,561	Coral++: Adding Object-Orientation to a Logic Database Language	1993	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
13,037	Implementing Lazy Database Updates for an Object Database System	1994	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,128	Non-monotonic knowledge evolution in VLKDBs	1990	VLDB	5.093636e-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
15	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00061144858
355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
475	A Calculus for Complex Objects	1986	PODS	0.00017864549
684	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014990873
740	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014482241
849	Object-Oriented Database Systems	1988	PODS	0.00013620915
2,768	Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases	1989	PODS	8.1494361e-05
3,488	The O2 Object Manager: an Overview	1989	VLDB	7.3679662e-05

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