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A Taxonomy of Time in Databases

Summary: Proposes a three-time taxonomy for temporal data in databases, clarifying terminology beyond single-attribute time models. Introduces a clean, pictorial model and classifies DBMS by temporal capability, arguing all three times should be supported to capture time-varying behavior. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2277
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1985
Pagerank
0.00028676087
Overall Rank
293 | 97.97%
DOI
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43 Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems 2002 PODS 0.00072723062
187 Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System 1986 VLDB 0.00036020812
432 Flexible Time Management in Data Stream Systems 2004 PODS 0.00023368424
446 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022925415
614 Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019177247
685 Access Methods For Multiversion Data 1989 SIGMOD 0.00018179465
1,281 DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale 2015 CIDR 0.00012854744
1,565 Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff 2015 VLDB 0.00011345567
2,265 The Time Index: An Access Structure For Temporal Data 1990 VLDB 9.154915e-05
2,845 Temporal Data Management 1986 VLDB 8.024003e-05
2,913 Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System 1986 SIGMOD 7.9126252e-05
3,007 The Performance Of A Multiversion Access Method 1990 SIGMOD 7.7270764e-05
3,746 Historical Multi-Media Databases 1986 VLDB 6.7924249e-05
4,327 Temporal Modules: An Approach Toward Federated Temporal Databases 1993 SIGMOD 6.2873894e-05
5,138 Extending the Relational Algebra to Support Transaction Time 1987 SIGMOD 5.6694679e-05
6,258 A Temporal Knowledge Representation Model OSAM*/T and Its Query Language OQL/T 1991 VLDB 5.1357897e-05
6,654 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9733876e-05
7,003 Support for Temporal Data by Complex Objects 1990 VLDB 4.8660476e-05
7,299 Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases 1987 VLDB 4.7701967e-05
7,362 Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases 1993 VLDB 4.752436e-05
7,585 Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods 1996 VLDB 4.7037113e-05
7,982 A logical framework for temporal deductive databases 1988 VLDB 4.613363e-05
9,116 R-Tree Based Indexing of Now-Relative Bitemporal Data 1998 VLDB 4.3928853e-05
9,539 Weak Temporal Relations 1986 PODS 4.3265281e-05
12,564 Efficiently Processing Queries on Interval-and-Value Tuples in Relational Databases 2005 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,895 Realizing a Temporal Complex-Object Data Model 1992 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,966 Temporal Relationships in Databases 1988 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,987 Providing Time-Related Constraints For Conventional Database Systems. 1987 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
8 Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning 1979 SIGMOD 0.0015385917
85 Making Smalltalk a Database System 1984 SIGMOD 0.00053428612
504 Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension 1984 SIGMOD 0.0002151017
740 Integration of Time Versions into a Relational Database System 1984 VLDB 0.00017373475
1,752 The Temporal Query Language TQuel 1984 PODS 0.00010679936
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