PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases
Summary: PESTO is a portable, integrated query/browser for object DBs, enabling navigation of object relationships via a 'query-in-place' paradigm. Its extensible design adds predicates and data-type displays, and porting to any high-level object-query system. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Carey
- 2. Laura Haast
- 3. Vivek Maganty
- 4. John Williams
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases | 1997 | VLDB | 0.00064329285 |
| 1,936 | QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00010030476 |
| 2,854 | The Garlic Project | 1996 | SIGMOD | 8.0103732e-05 |
| 12,778 | Facilitating Multimedia Database Exploration through Visual Interfaces and Perpetual Query Reformulations | 1997 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 414 | Timber: A Sophisticated Relation Browser | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0002388204 |
| 1,250 | Dbms Research At A Crossroads: The Vienna Update | 1993 | VLDB | 0.00013036867 |
| 1,724 | OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.00010750441 |
| 2,411 | G-WHIZ*, a Visual Interface for the Functional Model with Recursion | 1985 | VLDB | 8.8758658e-05 |
| 2,668 | "Fill-in-the-Form" Programming | 1985 | VLDB | 8.3400653e-05 |
| 3,964 | Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface | 1984 | SIGMOD | 6.5826501e-05 |
| 5,134 | Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power | 1989 | VLDB | 5.6732401e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,735 | QuestPro: Queries in SPARQL Through Provenance | 2018 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 2,854 | The Garlic Project | 1996 | SIGMOD | 8.0103732e-05 |
| 994 | Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00014755845 |
| 6,580 | Query Portals: Dynamically Generating Portals for Entity-Oriented Web Queries | 2010 | SIGMOD | 5.0034092e-05 |
| 7,527 | Query By Diagram: A Graphical Environment For Querying Databases | 1994 | SIGMOD | 4.7180617e-05 |
| 14,283 | Browsing in a Loosely Structured Database | 1984 | SIGMOD | - |
| 13,634 | OntoQuest: Exploring Ontological Data Made Easy | 2006 | VLDB | - |
| 6,618 | QUEST: An Exploratory Approach to Robust Query Processing | 2014 | VLDB | 4.9925655e-05 |
| 5,410 | PICASSO: Exploratory Search of Connected Subgraph Substructures in Graph Databases | 2017 | VLDB | 5.5235453e-05 |
| 1,698 | Query Processing in the ObjectStore Database System | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00010869294 |