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: 8116
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,878 | 10.50%
DOI: -

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
953	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00015096873
1,298	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	0.00012730275
3,850	Versions Of Schema For Object-Oriented Databases	1988	VLDB	6.6999737e-05

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