Implementing a distributed garbage collector for OO databases

• Published in: Proceedings of Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems - TOOLS 30 (Cat. No.PR00278) pp. 42 - 52
• Main Authors: Bielak, R., Sarkis, J.-P.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 1999
• Subjects: Automatic programming; Distributed databases; Java; Memory management; Object oriented databases; Object oriented programming; Parallel programming; Partitioning algorithms; Programming profession; Virtual machining

We describe the implementation of a distributed garbage collector for a group of object oriented databases. We start by considering the issues that led to the choice of algorithm and why garbage collection in a database is more difficult than in memory. We describe the algorithm and how it was imple...