Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil

Summary: Decade-long view of object–database interplay; evolution from extensible/ODB systems to language-level persistence. Surveys research projects and products; outlines vision, biases, and key challenges to unify objects with databases. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h1d142573118c6422
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1996
Pagerank: 9.3898701e-05
Overall Rank: 1,909 | 87.18%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael J. Carey (IBM)
2. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{carey_vldb96,
        title = {{Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil}},
        author = {Carey, Michael J. and DeWitt, David J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '96},
        pages = {3--14},
        year = {1996}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
423	Cost-based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays	1998	SIGMOD	0.00018487497
604	Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System	2000	VLDB	0.00015664234
2,500	Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases	2007	SIGMOD	8.3791317e-05
2,973	Anatomy of the ADO.NET Entity Framework	2007	SIGMOD	7.7932422e-05
3,088	On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS	1998	SIGMOD	7.6593918e-05
3,200	Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity	2015	SIGMOD	7.5406953e-05
6,913	O-O, What Have They Done to DB2?	1999	VLDB	5.6459578e-05
7,085	Oracle Database Filesystem	2011	SIGMOD	5.6004025e-05
8,307	Formal Semantics and Analysis of Object Queries	2003	SIGMOD	5.3578835e-05
14,445	O-O, What's Happening to DB2?	1999	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059968627
96	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034271712
150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028917874
291	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00021940923
302	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00021664369
698	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.0001468044
744	Client-Server Paradise	1994	VLDB	0.00014305129
1,795	Data Access for the Masses through OLE DB	1996	SIGMOD	9.6162382e-05
5,467	Object-Oriented Database Systems: Promises, Reality, and Future	1993	VLDB	6.1181928e-05

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