A high performance configurable storage manager

Presents the architecture of ℬeSS (Bell Laboratories Storage System)-a high-performance configurable database storage manager providing key facilities for the fast development of object-oriented, relational or home-grown database management systems. ℬeSS is based on a multi-client multi-server architecture offering distributed transaction management facilities and extensible support for persistence. We present some novel aspects of the ℬeSS architecture, including a fast object reference technique that allows re-organization of databases without affecting existing references, and two operation modes that an application running on a client or server machine can use to interact with the storage system-(i) copy on access and (ii) shared memory