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: 0.00028930192
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}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049142315
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034033763
114	A Decomposition Storage Model	1985	SIGMOD	0.00031928929
118	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00031392616
291	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00021951101
339	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00020570509
476	Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1989	SIGMOD	0.00017640534
675	A Study of Three Alternative Workstation-Server Architectures for Object Oriented Database Systems	1990	VLDB	0.00014862897
698	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014687325
759	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014164131
793	Model Management 2.0: Manipulating Richer Mappings	2007	SIGMOD	0.00013942384
952	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00012881214
1,143	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011847554
1,253	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011336027
1,689	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8628503e-05
1,870	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	9.4669909e-05
1,909	Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil	1996	VLDB	9.3937135e-05
2,302	Database Programming in Machiavelli - a Polymorphic Language with Static Type Inference	1989	SIGMOD	8.6714301e-05
2,457	Untyped Sets, Invention, and Computable Queries	1989	PODS	8.4375276e-05
3,074	Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System	1986	SIGMOD	7.676884e-05
3,355	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.3861841e-05
4,104	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.8054313e-05
4,221	Efficiently Supporting Procedures In Relational Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.7238906e-05
4,668	XL: A Platform for Web Services	2003	CIDR	6.479044e-05
5,369	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.1585727e-05
5,476	Storage Reclamation in Object Oriented Database Systems	1987	SIGMOD	6.1161354e-05
5,934	The Flatter, the Better: Query Compilation Based on the Flattening Transformation	2015	SIGMOD	5.9420302e-05
6,054	Nested Historical Relations	1989	SIGMOD	5.9024935e-05
6,420	An Object-Oriented Database System for Engineering Applications	1987	SIGMOD	5.7903037e-05
6,602	Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems	1990	PODS	5.7397128e-05
7,486	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.5122463e-05
7,750	Context-Based Prefetch for Implementing Objects on Relations	1999	VLDB	5.4595969e-05
11,047	Chipmink: Efficient Delta Identification for Massive Object Graphs	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,954	Eliminating Impedance Mismatch in C++	2007	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,399	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,416	The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C	1990	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,418	Non-monotonic knowledge evolution in VLKDBs	1990	VLDB	4.9793485e-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	0.00075944947
144	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029097107
263	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00022811354
610	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.0001558453
1,104	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012003564

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