Cricket - A Mapped, Persistent Object Store

This paper describes Cricket, a new database storage system that is intended to be used as a platformfor design environments and persistent programming languages. Cricket uses the memorymanagement primitives of the Mach operating system to provide the abstraction of a shared,transactional single-level store that can be directly accessed by user applications. In this paper,we present the design and motivation for Cricket. We also present some initial performanceresults which show that, for...