Implementation of General Constraints in SIM

Summary: Describes SIM, an OO-DBMS with no user-defined methods, supporting general constraints (aggregates, quantifiers, cross-object refs). Constraint checks are generated via stored queries, deferred to full updates, with rollback on violation; the parser can prune checks, and structural constraints are enforced separately. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h8e0610a933ec9ebe
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 13,380 | 10.05%
DOI: 10.1145/130283.130340

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Authors

1. Richard Bigelow (Unisys)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bigelow_sigmod92,
        title = {{Implementation of General Constraints in SIM}},
        author = {Bigelow, Richard},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/130283.130340},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130340},
        year = {1992}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,373	SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	5.8092399e-05

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