Transactions and versioning in an ODBMS

Versant Object Technology builds and sells a distributed Object Database Management System (ODBMS), called VERSANT. This position paper proposes transaction model and version model requirements in support of the kinds of distributed database processing that ODBMS applications require. Transaction model requirements address the long transactions required by many ODBMS applications, as well as the short transactions found in conventional DBMS products. Version model requirements suggest a minimal set of primitives which can be extended to support emerging standards and companies' specific models.