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: 5.7180274e-05
Overall Rank: 6,610 | 55.70%
DOI: 10.1145/298514.298537

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Won Kim (Microelectronics And Technology Computer Corporation)

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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,420	Semantic Queries with Pictures: The VIMSYS Model	1991	VLDB	6.1245865e-05
6,431	Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations	1994	VLDB	5.7688769e-05
8,757	New Data Models and Languages - the Challenge	1992	PODS	5.2705676e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 27 of 27 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023948467
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075677079
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059778867
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
46	Benchmarking Database Systems: A Systematic Approach	1983	VLDB	0.00044656322
67	An Amateur's Introduction to Recursive Query Processing Strategies	1986	SIGMOD	0.0003786983
101	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00033939695
118	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00031320165
150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028835071
297	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.0002187415
368	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00019850502
618	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015506878
638	LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language	1986	VLDB	0.0001531355
704	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014633243
763	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014111102
908	F-Logic: A Higher-Order Language for Reasoning about Objects, Inheritance, and Scheme	1989	SIGMOD	0.00013123298
1,144	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011804665
1,224	Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases	1986	SIGMOD	0.00011438487
1,260	A Model of Queries for Object-Oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011293794
1,421	A Data Management Extension Architecture	1987	SIGMOD	0.000107023
1,456	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00010572168
1,877	Composite Objects Revisted	1989	SIGMOD	9.4316735e-05
2,559	Benchmarking Simple Database Operations	1987	SIGMOD	8.2758781e-05
3,832	Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases	1988	VLDB	6.974756e-05
5,380	Multimedia Information Management in an Object-Oriented Database System	1987	VLDB	6.1387295e-05
5,405	An Implementation for Nested Relational Databases	1988	VLDB	6.1329715e-05
7,510	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	5.4914596e-05

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