Object-Oriented Database Systems

Summary: Vision piece defining OO database research goals and core features to integrate: encapsulation, object identity, types/classes, inheritance, overriding, and late binding. Contrasts OO systems, OODBMs and relational DBs, assessing pros/cons and open research challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 824
Venue: PODS
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00013620915
Overall Rank: 849 | 94.18%
DOI: 10.1145/308386.308429

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. François Bancilhon (Altair)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bancilhon_pods88,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '88},
        title = {{Object-Oriented Database Systems}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/308386.308429},
        doi = {10.1145/308386.308429},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Bancilhon, François},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
355	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00020351749
877	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013464822
1,145	Objects and Views	1991	SIGMOD	0.00011987662
1,272	A Framework for Automating Physical Database Design	1991	VLDB	0.0001138436
1,690	Incomplete Objects - A Data Model for Design and Planning Applications	1991	SIGMOD	0.00010001011
1,697	The O2 Database Programming Language	1989	VLDB	9.9805695e-05
1,891	A Logic for Object-Oriented Logic Programming (Maier's O-Logic Revisited)	1989	PODS	9.5298123e-05
2,296	Containment and Minimization of Positive Conjunctive Queries in OODB's (Extended Abstract)	1992	PODS	8.7908999e-05
2,637	A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model	1990	PODS	8.3154765e-05
2,768	Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases	1989	PODS	8.1494361e-05
3,191	Method Schemas	1990	PODS	7.6525725e-05
4,919	LLO: An Object-Oriented Deductive Language with Methods and Method Inheritance	1991	SIGMOD	6.4452856e-05
5,259	An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases	1988	VLDB	6.2965521e-05
6,063	A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces	1990	SIGMOD	5.9899728e-05
8,562	New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge	1992	PODS	5.4119882e-05
8,569	The Power of Methods With Parallel Semantics	1991	VLDB	5.4107086e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
346	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020654241
622	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.00015686753
740	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014482241
799	Logic Programming With Sets	1987	PODS	0.00013911498

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