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Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems

Summary: Positions OO language concepts as a foundation for post-relational data models but highlights lack of a standard OODB model and persistent criticisms hindering adoption. Provides historical perspective, a working OODB definition, and a concise agenda of research and implementation challenges. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h7a0b9ca1f145d3a0
Venue
PODS
Year
1990
Pagerank
5.7397128e-05
Overall Rank
6,602 | 55.62%
DOI
10.1145/298514.298537

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kim_pods90,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '90},
        title = {{Research Directions in Object-Oriented Database Systems}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/298514.298537},
        doi = {10.1145/298514.298537},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Kim, Won},
        year = {1990}
}

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1 Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System 1979 SIGMOD 0.0023947656
10 Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning 1979 SIGMOD 0.00075944947
16 The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX 1979 SIGMOD 0.00059996338
34 The Design Of Postgres 1986 SIGMOD 0.00049142315
46 Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach 1983 VLDB 0.00044784799
67 An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies 1986 SIGMOD 0.00038009523
99 The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System 1987 VLDB 0.00034033763
118 The EXODUS Optimizer Generator 1987 SIGMOD 0.00031392616
150 Making Smalltalk a Database System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00028930192
291 Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System 1986 VLDB 0.00021951101
366 Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive 1989 SIGMOD 0.00019923978
615 Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases 1987 SIGMOD 0.00015564615
635 LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language 1986 VLDB 0.00015368492
698 A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS 1988 SIGMOD 0.00014687325
759 O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model 1988 SIGMOD 0.00014164131
904 F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme 1989 SIGMOD 0.00013171457
1,143 The POSTGRES Data Model 1987 VLDB 0.00011847554
1,219 Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases 1986 SIGMOD 0.00011481589
1,253 A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases 1989 VLDB 0.00011336027
1,411 A Data Management Extension Architecture 1987 SIGMOD 0.00010741047
1,451 A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment 1986 VLDB 0.00010612244
1,870 Composite Objects Revisted 1989 SIGMOD 9.4669909e-05
2,553 Benchmarking Simple Database Operations 1987 SIGMOD 8.3065359e-05
3,825 Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases 1988 VLDB 7.0012097e-05
5,358 Multimedia Information Management in an Object-Oriented Database System 1987 VLDB 6.161939e-05
5,378 An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases 1988 VLDB 6.1561988e-05
7,486 Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System 1988 SIGMOD 5.5122463e-05
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