“Unfortunately, little research has been reported on optimizing database programming languages. Traditional programming-language optimization techniques should be applicable in many cases, but no research has been reported ... This is an important and difficult area for future research, because it spans programming language and database systems disciplines.” [Cattell 1994], p. 185.
@inproceedings{Hosking+1997IDEA,
author = {Hosking, Antony L. and Cutts, Quintin},
title = {Analysing, Profiling and Optimising for Persistence},
booktitle = {Australian Workshop on Integrated Data Environments},
series = {IDEA},
year = {1997},
month = {May},
address = {Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia},
url = {http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/users/idea/idea4}
}