Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages
Summary: Argues for separating type, extent, and persistence in DB programming languages to derive inheritance from type hierarchies. Proposes a generic type to select all objects of a type, and analyzes object- and type-level inheritance with persistence in relational DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Peter Buneman (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2. Malcolm Atkinson (University of Glasgow)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{buneman_sigmod86,
title = {{Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages}},
author = {Buneman, Peter and Atkinson, Malcolm},
series = {{SIGMOD} '86},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/16894.16858},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/16894.16858},
year = {1986}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,689 | ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model | 1989 | SIGMOD | 9.8628503e-05 |
| 3,142 | C-Logic of Complex Objects | 1989 | PODS | 7.5983724e-05 |
| 4,429 | Modeling Class Hierarchies with Contradictions | 1988 | SIGMOD | 6.6024368e-05 |
| 13,455 | Rapid Application Prototyping: The PROQUEL Language | 1988 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00059996338 |
| 144 | A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications | 1978 | SIGMOD | 0.00029097107 |
| 150 | Making Smalltalk a Database System | 1984 | SIGMOD | 0.00028930192 |
| 263 | Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation | 1977 | SIGMOD | 0.00022811354 |
| 434 | The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00018328281 |
| 486 | A Calculus for Complex Objects | 1986 | PODS | 0.00017471997 |
| 628 | Database Relations with Null Values (Extended Abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.0001544126 |
| 1,489 | Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00010514004 |
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