Making Smalltalk a Database System

Summary: Smalltalk-based system fuses OO programming with a set-theoretic data model to boost database app modeling. GemStone data model and OPAL supply path expressions, declarative semantics, and object history, addressing concurrency and past-states. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h66cfc24a76e50275
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.00028835071
Overall Rank: 150 | 99.00%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602300

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. George Copeland (Servio Logic Corporation)
2. David Maier (Oregon Graduate Institute; Servio Logic Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{copeland_sigmod84,
        title = {{Making Smalltalk a Database System}},
        author = {Copeland, George and Maier, David},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602300},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602300},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 37 of 37 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
101	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00033939695
114	A Decomposition Storage Model	1985	SIGMOD	0.00031854546
118	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00031320165
297	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.0002187415
341	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00020516619
479	Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1989	SIGMOD	0.00017595584
678	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00014822796
704	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014633243
763	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014111102
795	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013895182
957	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012838854
1,144	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011804665
1,260	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011293794
1,697	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8264533e-05
1,877	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	9.4316735e-05
1,918	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.3612346e-05
2,318	Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference	1989	SIGMOD	8.6386744e-05
2,466	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.4057294e-05
3,084	Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System	1986	SIGMOD	7.6479922e-05
3,363	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.3582785e-05
4,124	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.7797683e-05
4,241	Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.6988735e-05
4,682	XL: A Platform for Web Services	2003	CIDR	6.454884e-05
5,392	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.1354435e-05
5,498	Storage Reclamation in Object Oriented Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.09303e-05
5,946	The Flatter, the Better: Query Compilation Based on the Flattening Transformation	2015	SIGMOD	5.9196693e-05
6,069	Nested Historical Relations	1989	SIGMOD	5.8802224e-05
6,430	An Object-Oriented Database System for Engineering Applications	1987	SIGMOD	5.7690302e-05
6,610	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.7180274e-05
7,510	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.4914596e-05
7,772	Context-Based Prefetch for Implementing Objects on Relations	1999	VLDB	5.438971e-05
11,117	Chipmink: Efficient Delta Identification for Massive Object Graphs	2026	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,002	Eliminating Impedance Mismatch in C++	2007	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,446	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,463	The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C	1990	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,465	Non-monotonic knowledge evolution in VLKDBs	1990	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075677079
145	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00028989663
265	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00022728909
614	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015527367
1,107	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00011959934

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	849	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD
2	5,099	A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language	1991	VLDB
3	1,492	Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model	1982	VLDB
4	4,248	Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach	1987	VLDB
5	2,840	Modeling Complex Structures in Object-Oriented Databases	1989	PODS
6	14,801	Using Design Axioms and Topology to Model Database Semantics	1987	VLDB
7	6,610	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS
8	13,389	A Logical Semantics for Object-Oriented Databases	1993	SIGMOD
9	8,321	Formal Semantics and Analysis of Object Queries	2003	SIGMOD
10	7,077	Semantic Modeling of Object Oriented Databases	1991	VLDB