The O2 Object Manager: an Overview

Summary: Overview of O2’s Object Manager, the core layer for complex-object manipulation, persistence, transactions, disk management, and distribution. Highlights its architectural organization and design choices for object-oriented database servers and workstations. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h36d4bb69fe2522c8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 7.2040741e-05
Overall Rank: 3,561 | 76.07%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Fernando Velez (Altair)
2. Guy Bernard (Altair)
3. Vineeta Darnis (Altair)

BibTeX Citation

@article{velez_vldb89,
        title = {{The O2 Object Manager: an Overview}},
        author = {Velez, Fernando and Bernard, Guy and Darnis, Vineeta},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '89},
        pages = {357},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
676	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00014868989
1,357	Fido: A Cache That Learns to Fetch	1991	VLDB	0.00010917862
1,734	The O2 Database Programming Language	1989	VLDB	9.7575381e-05
2,108	A Performance Evaluation of Pointer-Based Joins	1990	SIGMOD	9.0268278e-05
5,626	Principles of Transaction-Based On-Line Reorganization	1992	VLDB	6.0581249e-05
7,687	Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases	1990	VLDB	5.4746904e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034019355
291	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00021940923
759	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.0001415745
1,734	The O2 Database Programming Language	1989	VLDB	9.7575381e-05
2,531	Supporting Flat Relations by a Nested Relational Kernel	1987	VLDB	8.3313296e-05
2,825	Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases	1989	PODS	7.9641973e-05
6,003	Cooperative Object Buffer Management in the Advanced Information Management Prototype	1987	VLDB	5.9149516e-05
7,491	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.5096389e-05

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