Object-Oriented Database Systems: Promises, Reality, and Future

Summary: Reviews the promises, reality, and vendor activity around object-oriented database systems. Argues that unification with relational technology is a viable path to fulfill OO goals, demystifying myths and outlining a pragmatic future. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8166
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.9749181e-05
Overall Rank: 4,719 | 67.18%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Won Kim

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,581	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	0.00011266063
6,197	O-O, What Have They Done to DB2?	1999	VLDB	5.1614115e-05

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