Access Methods For Multiversion Data

Summary: Time-Split B-tree, an integrated index for versioned, timestamped DBs with non-deletion. Current data on fast erasable storage; historical data on slower media consolidated and appended to the historical store, enabling space-efficient versioning via time- and key-based splits. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2514
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 0.0001502579
Overall Rank: 681 | 95.33%
DOI: 10.1145/67544.66956

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. David Lomet (Digital Equipment Corporation; Wang Institute)
2. Betty Salzberg (Northeastern University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lomet_sigmod89,
        title = {{ACCESS METHODS FOR MULTIVERSION DATA}},
        author = {Lomet, David and Salzberg, Betty},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '89},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/67544.66956},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67544.66956},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 32 of 32 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
687	Sequence Query Processing	1994	SIGMOD	0.00014948592
807	Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method	1998	VLDB	0.00013884448
1,210	Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011656235
1,901	A Generic Approach to Bulk Loading Multidimensional Index Structures	1997	VLDB	9.5068846e-05
2,115	The Time Index: An Access Structure for Temporal Data	1990	VLDB	9.1449719e-05
2,568	Timeline Index: A Unified Data Structure for Processing Queries on Temporal Data in SAP HANA	2013	SIGMOD	8.4096765e-05
2,776	Segment Indexes: Dynamic Indexing Techniques for Multi-Dimensional Interval Data	1991	SIGMOD	8.1356669e-05
2,805	LogBase: A Scalable Log-structured Database System in the Cloud	2012	VLDB	8.1044134e-05
2,824	Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression	2008	VLDB	8.0882727e-05
3,023	Persistent Data Sketching	2015	SIGMOD	7.8398269e-05
3,033	The Performance Of A Multiversion Access Method	1990	SIGMOD	7.8303009e-05
3,114	Access Method Concurrency with Recovery	1992	SIGMOD	7.7405805e-05
3,320	Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna	2019	VLDB	7.5223482e-05
3,517	LittleTable: A Time-Series Database and Its Uses	2017	SIGMOD	7.3523997e-05
3,784	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	7.1268687e-05
3,818	A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit	1993	VLDB	7.0999246e-05
4,971	Persistent Bloom Filter: Membership Testing for the Entire History	2018	SIGMOD	6.4195676e-05
5,255	At-the-time and Back-in-time Persistent Sketches	2021	SIGMOD	6.2982495e-05
5,501	Efficient Computation of Temporal Aggregates with Range Predicates	2001	PODS	6.1968336e-05
6,126	Efficient Bulk Updates on Multiversion B-trees	2013	VLDB	5.9675155e-05
7,016	Minuet: A Scalable Distributed Multiversion B-Tree	2012	VLDB	5.7253247e-05
7,595	Query Processing Techniques for Multiversion Access Methods	1996	VLDB	5.5888857e-05
7,936	Logging Every Footstep: Quantile Summaries for the Entire History	2010	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05
7,981	DeltaNI: An Efficient Labeling Scheme for Versioned Hierarchical Data	2013	SIGMOD	5.5146136e-05
8,207	The HV-tree: a Memory Hierarchy Aware Version Index	2010	VLDB	5.4666057e-05
8,306	ParTime: Parallel Temporal Aggregation	2016	SIGMOD	5.4568273e-05
8,628	Retrieval Performance Versus Disc Space Utilization on WORM Optical Discs	1989	SIGMOD	5.3968286e-05
8,793	Recovery from "Bad" User Transactions	2006	SIGMOD	5.3714948e-05
11,758	RID: Deduplicating Snapshot Computations	2020	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
12,916	The Persistent Cache: Improving OID Indexing in Temporal Object-Oriented Database Systems	1999	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,069	Exploiting A History Database for Backup	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,095	A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries	1992	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034506601
335	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00020869676
709	Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data	1987	SIGMOD	0.00014726781

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