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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
2278
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1985
Pagerank
0.00028649864
Overall Rank
294 | 97.96%
DOI
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43 Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems 2002 PODS 0.00072660894
187 Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System 1986 VLDB 0.00035990623
433 Flexible Time Management in Data Stream Systems 2004 PODS 0.00023336894
447 Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022927245
611 Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data 1987 SIGMOD 0.00019161022
683 Access Methods For Multiversion Data 1989 SIGMOD 0.00018162653
1,278 DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale 2015 CIDR 0.00012851949
1,565 Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff 2015 VLDB 0.00011336478
2,272 The Time Index: An Access Structure For Temporal Data 1990 VLDB 9.1458869e-05
2,851 Temporal Data Management 1986 VLDB 8.0159684e-05
2,917 Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System 1986 SIGMOD 7.9050859e-05
3,010 The Performance Of A Multiversion Access Method 1990 SIGMOD 7.7204737e-05
3,752 Historical Multi-Media Databases 1986 VLDB 6.785631e-05
4,322 Temporal Modules: An Approach Toward Federated Temporal Databases 1993 SIGMOD 6.281137e-05
5,139 Extending the Relational Algebra to Support Transaction Time 1987 SIGMOD 5.6640252e-05
6,258 A Temporal Knowledge Representation Model OSAM*/T and Its Query Language OQL/T 1991 VLDB 5.1307627e-05
6,657 Moirae: History-Enhanced Monitoring 2007 CIDR 4.9686214e-05
7,002 Support for Temporal Data by Complex Objects 1990 VLDB 4.8612889e-05
7,296 Dealing with Temporal Schema Anomalies in History Databases 1987 VLDB 4.7656202e-05
7,358 Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases 1993 VLDB 4.7478752e-05
7,601 Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods 1996 VLDB 4.6967949e-05
7,985 A logical framework for temporal deductive databases 1988 VLDB 4.6089395e-05
9,114 R-Tree Based Indexing of Now-Relative Bitemporal Data 1998 VLDB 4.3887024e-05
9,540 Weak Temporal Relations 1986 PODS 4.3223802e-05
12,573 Efficiently Processing Queries on Interval-and-Value Tuples in Relational Databases 2005 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,905 Realizing a Temporal Complex-Object Data Model 1992 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
12,976 Temporal Relationships in Databases 1988 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
12,998 Providing Time-Related Constraints For Conventional Database Systems. 1987 VLDB 4.1905499e-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
7 Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning 1979 SIGMOD 0.0015464728
86 Making Smalltalk a Database System 1984 SIGMOD 0.0005348843
505 Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension 1984 SIGMOD 0.0002148783
738 Integration of Time Versions into a Relational Database System 1984 VLDB 0.000173732
1,752 The Temporal Query Language TQuel 1984 PODS 0.00010669141
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