Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/CareyD96,
  author    = {Michael J. Carey and
               David J. DeWitt},
  editor    = {T. M. Vijayaraman and
               Alejandro P. Buchmann and
               C. Mohan and
               Nandlal L. Sarda},
  title     = {Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil},
  booktitle = {VLDB'96, Proceedings of 22th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 3-6, 1996, Mumbai (Bombay), India},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1996},
  isbn      = {1-55860-382-4},
  pages     = {3-14},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/CareyD96.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/96},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

A decade ago, the connection between objects and databases was new and was being explored in a number of different ways within our community. Driven by the perception that managing traditional business data was largely a solved problem, projects were investigating ideas such as adding abstract data types to relational databases and building extensible database systems, object-oriented database systems, and toolkits for constructing special-purpose database systems. In addition, work was underway elsewere in the computer science research community on extending programming languages with database-inspired features such as persistence and transactions.

In this paper, we take a look at where our filed was a decade ago and where it is now in terms of database support for objects (and vice versa). We look both at research projects and at commercial database products. We share our vision and our biases about the future of objects and databases, and we identify a number of research challenges that remain to be addressed in order to ultimately achieve our vision.

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