Searching in Time

Summary: Timetravel service built from external DBs using snapshot isolation. Retrieve, identify, and explore older snapshots via a tailored query interface and a snapshot-search tool; runs on synchronized replicas with negligible impact on normal work. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3876
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 7.1998478e-05
Overall Rank: 3,691 | 74.68%
DOI: 10.1145/1142473.1142578

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Christian Plattner (ETH Zurich)
2. Andreas Wapf (ETH Zurich)
3. Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{plattner_sigmod06,
        title = {{Searching in Time}},
        author = {Plattner, Christian and Wapf, Andreas and Alonso, Gustavo},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '06},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1142473.1142578},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142473.1142578},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
754	Lazy Database Replication with Snapshot Isolation	2006	VLDB	0.00014327706
2,824	Transaction Time Indexing with Version Compression	2008	VLDB	8.0882727e-05
3,023	Persistent Data Sketching	2015	SIGMOD	7.8398269e-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
10,212	Concurrent Path-Copying Update to Tree Structures	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,824	Efficient Concurrent Updates to Persistent Randomized Binary Search Trees	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-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
1,210	Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011656235

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