PM3: An Orthogonally Persistent Systems Programming Language - Design, Implementation, Performance

Summary: PM3 extends Modula-3 with orthogonal persistence via reachability from named roots. Its prototype and OO7 traversal results, compared with SHORE/C++, show persistence overhead need not exceed nonorthogonal approaches, enabling safer persistent systems without sacrificing performance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h0aade537c3fa584f
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 13,204 | 11.23%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Antony L. Hosking (Purdue University)
2. Jiawan Chen (Purdue University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hosking_vldb99,
        title = {{PM3: An Orthogonally Persistent Systems Programming Language - Design, Implementation, Performance}},
        author = {Hosking, Antony L. and Chen, Jiawan},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {587},
        year = {1999}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
302	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002167061
952	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012881214
1,103	The OO7 Benchmark	1993	SIGMOD	0.00012003575
1,689	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8628503e-05
2,693	QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store	1994	SIGMOD	8.1231603e-05
3,918	Fine-Grained Sharing in a Page Server OODBMS	1994	SIGMOD	6.9262686e-05
8,933	Persistent Threads	1994	VLDB	5.2559789e-05

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