Persistent Threads

Summary: Persistent threads bind data in persistent object stores to activated code for long-running, distributed DB tasks. Integration into a polymorphically-typed DB language with an abstract-thread model enables analysis, optimization, and portability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8401
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 5.3766157e-05
Overall Rank: 8,771 | 39.83%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Florian Matthes (University of Hamburg)
2. Joachim W. Schmidt (University of Hamburg)

BibTeX Citation

@article{matthes_vldb94,
        title = {{Persistent Threads}},
        author = {Matthes, Florian and Schmidt, Joachim W.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        volume = {20},
        pages = {403--414},
        year = {1994}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,914	PM3: An Orthogonally Persistent Systems Programming Language - Design, Implementation, Performance	1999	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
64	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038756588
4,951	A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language	1991	VLDB	6.4310179e-05
13,066	Viewers: A Data-World Analogue of Procedure Calls	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	2,737	Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store	1991	SIGMOD
2	9,404	Safe and Efficient Sharing of Persistent Objects in Thor	1996	SIGMOD
3	8,962	Automatic Contention Detection and Amelioration for Data-Intensive Operations	2010	SIGMOD
4	2,394	A Case for Staged Database Systems	2003	CIDR
5	2,084	Transaction Synchronisation In Object Bases	1988	PODS
6	4,772	Improving Database Performance on Simultaneous Multithreading Processors	2005	VLDB
7	5,837	Update Logging for Persistent Programming Languages: A Comparative Performance Evaluation	1993	VLDB
8	4,010	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD
9	14,380	The Design and Implementation of Persistent Transactions in an Object Database System	1992	SIGMOD
10	13,183	Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment	1987	VLDB