Everything about Object database

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Object databaseA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: THINGSplus: New norms and metadata for the THINGS database of 1854 object concepts and 26,107 natural object imagesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: MongoDBThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The KIT object models database: An object model database for object recognition, localization and manipulation in service roboticsCited 201 times
5. Go sideways: Object–relational mappingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Object Data Management GroupA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The KIT object models database: An object model database for object recognition, localization and manipulation in service robotics

  Alexander Kasper, Zhixing Xue, Rüdiger Dillmann · 2012 · The International Journal of Robotics Research · 201 citations

• The GemStone object database management system

  Paul Butterworth, Allen Otis, Jacob Stein · 1991 · Communications of the ACM · 134 citations

• Object-oriented Transcription Factors Database (ooTFD)

  D. Ghosh · 2000 · Nucleic Acids Research · 95 citations

• A graph-oriented object database model

  M. Gyssens, J. Paredaens, J. van den Bussche · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 92 citations

• Schema evolution in object-oriented database systems

  G.T. Nguyen, D. Rieu · 1989 · Data & Knowledge Engineering · 61 citations

• Descriptive specification of database object behaviour

  Gunter Saake · 1991 · Data & Knowledge Engineering · 32 citations

• An intelligent fuzzy object-oriented database framework for video database applications

  Nezihe Burcu Ozgur, Murat Koyuncu, Adnan Yazici · 2009 · Fuzzy Sets and Systems · 23 citations

• Object-oriented database support for CAD

  Won Kim, Jay Banerjee, Hong-Tai Chou · 1990 · Computer-Aided Design · 22 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• THINGSplus: New norms and metadata for the THINGS database of 1854 object concepts and 26,107 natural object images

  Laura M. Stoinski, Jonas Perkuhn, Martin N. Hebart · 2023 · Behavior Research Methods · 37 citations

• Small Tool Image Database and Object Detection Approach for Indoor Construction Site Safety

  Kanghyeok Lee, Chanwoong Jeon, Do Hyoung Shin · 2023 · KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering · 19 citations

• Distributed MobilityDB: A Scalable Moving Object Database Management System

  Mohamed Bakli, Mahmoud Sakr, Esteban Zimányi · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems · 9 citations

• Object segmentation for image indexing in large database

  Juel Sikder, Mohammad Khairul Islam, Farah Jahan · 2024 · Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences · 7 citations

• ORCA: A picture database of object–scene arrangements for cross-cultural and aging research

  Michael Weigl, Jan Pietsch, Efsevia Kapsali · 2023 · Behavior Research Methods · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• MongoDBMichael Dirolf, Kristina Chodorow · 2010
• Java Examples in a NutshellDavid Flanagan · 1997
• 📕Object managementRoger Tagg · 1992
• Object-oriented methodsIan Graham · 1991
• Practical PostgreSQLJohn C Worsley, John C. Worsley · 2002
• Scaling MongoDBKristina Chodorow · 2011
• C data base developmentAl Stevens · 1987
• Database and expert systems applicationsAbdelkader Hameurlain, A Min Tjoa · 1997

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