An Overview of Repository Technology

Summary: Repositories are shared databases of engineered artifacts; a repository manager is a DB-backed application enabling checkout/checkin, version/config management, notification, context, and workflow control. It discusses integrating tools with repositories and outlines a DBMS-based implementation focusing on API, performance, distribution, and interoperability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8429
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,323 | 1.74%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Philip A. Bernstein (Digital Equipment Corporation)
2. Umeshwar Dayal (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

BibTeX Citation

@article{bernstein_vldb94,
        title = {{An Overview of Repository Technology}},
        author = {Bernstein, Philip A. and Dayal, Umeshwar},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        pages = {705},
        year = {1994}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,533	The Microsoft Repository	1997	VLDB	5.6029996e-05

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