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On Object-Oriented Database Systems pp 171–188Cite as

A Shared Object Hierarchy

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This paper describes the design and proposed implementation of a shared object hierarchy. The object hierarchy is stored in a relational database and objects referenced by an application program are cached in the program’s address space. The paper describes the database representation for the object hierarchy and the use of POSTGRES, a next-generation relational database management system, to implement object referencing efficiently. The shared object hierarchy system will be used to implement OBJFADS, an object-oriented programming environment for interactive multimedia database applications, that will be the programming interface to POSTGRES.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstraße 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Germany

    Klaus R. Dittrich

  2. Cambridge Research Laboratory, Digital Equipment Corporation, One Kendall Square, Building 700, 02139, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  3. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, 40 Sylvan Road, 0234, Waltham, MA, USA

    Alejandro P. Buchmann

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Rowe, L.A. (1991). A Shared Object Hierarchy. In: Dittrich, K.R., Dayal, U., Buchmann, A.P. (eds) On Object-Oriented Database Systems. Topics in Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84374-7_12

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