Versions of Simple and Composite Objects

Summary: Proposes a versioned data model for simple and composite objects, introducing class versions and instance versions. Defines cross-type links and a conditional automatic propagation mechanism to create versions only in specified cases for composite objects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8115
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,868 | 10.48%
DOI: -

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
965	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00014973153
1,315	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	0.00012631662
3,848	Versions Of Schema For Object-Oriented Databases	1988	VLDB	6.7064255e-05

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