Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store

Summary: Architectural proposal for a persistent object store with explicit multi-level storage. Supports very large object bases with time-critical data in RAM, rest on disk and tertiary/remote levels (potentially more than three), and includes a sketch of a multi-level query optimizer. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h322def6360157a5f
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 8.0079179e-05
Overall Rank: 2,792 | 81.23%
DOI: 10.1145/115790.115791

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{stonebraker_sigmod91,
        title = {{Managing Persistent Objects in a Multi-Level Store}},
        author = {Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115791},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115791},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
125	Predicate Migration: Optimizing Queries with Expensive Predicates	1993	SIGMOD	0.00030470848
3,845	Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases	1995	VLDB	6.9859201e-05
4,169	The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects	1992	SIGMOD	6.7621027e-05
5,968	Tapes Hold Data, Too: Challenges of Tuples on Tertiary Store	1993	SIGMOD	5.9319838e-05
6,532	Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring	2007	CIDR	5.7544926e-05
7,832	Random I/O Scheduling in Online Tertiary Storage Systems	1996	SIGMOD	5.4436925e-05
8,930	Vertical Data Migration in Large Near-Line Document Archives Based on Markov-Chain Predictions	1997	VLDB	5.2559789e-05
13,096	Capacity Bound-free Web Warehouse	2003	CIDR	4.9793485e-05
13,330	Investigation of Algebraic Query Optimisation for Database Programming Languages	1994	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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
7	Implementation Techniques For Main Memory Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	0.00081992507
54	GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine	1986	VLDB	0.00040499302
592	Global Query Optimization	1986	SIGMOD	0.00015841026
675	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00014862897
843	Exploiting Inheritance and Structure Semantics for Effective Clustering and Buffering in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013533222
1,384	Query Processing in Main Memory Database Management Systems	1986	SIGMOD	0.00010845169
3,530	Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases	1988	VLDB	7.2276073e-05

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