Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server

Summary: Transactional time support embedded in SQL Server, preserving prior versions on updates and enabling time-at queries. Lazy timestamping with a unified storage and time-splits for scalable history and time-based indexing, plus snapshot isolation, demonstrated on moving objects. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3725
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00014922442
Overall Rank: 972 | 93.24%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
809	Curated Databases	2008	PODS	0.00016430384
3,045	Skippy: a New Snapshot Indexing Method for Time Travel in the Storage Manager	2008	SIGMOD	7.6595001e-05
3,134	Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression	2008	VLDB	7.4967274e-05
3,614	Persistent Data Sketching	2015	SIGMOD	6.9147318e-05
3,776	Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering	2006	SIGMOD	6.7754215e-05
3,810	Searching in Time	2006	SIGMOD	6.7394548e-05
3,980	Making Updates Disk-I/O Friendly Using SSDs	2013	VLDB	6.5664429e-05
4,627	Multi-Version Range Concurrency Control in Deuteronomy	2015	VLDB	6.0390708e-05
4,858	Reducing Database Locking Contention Through Multi-version Concurrency	2014	VLDB	5.8732463e-05
5,332	Persistent Bloom Filter: Membership Testing for the Entire History	2018	SIGMOD	5.5662513e-05
5,909	At-the-time and Back-in-time Persistent Sketches	2021	SIGMOD	5.2769377e-05
6,021	Securing history: Privacy and accountability in database systems	2007	CIDR	5.2415551e-05
7,254	DEX: Query Execution in a Delta-based Storage System	2017	SIGMOD	4.7885915e-05
10,556	Efficient Concurrent Updates to Persistent Randomized Binary Search Trees	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,561	RID: Deduplicating Snapshot Computations	2020	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
12,136	Transaction Log Based Application Error Recovery and Point In-Time Query	2012	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,274	Updatable and Evolvable Transforms for Virtual Databases	2010	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
685	Access Methods For Multiversion Data	1989	SIGMOD	0.00018179465

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