A Query Language for a Homogeneous Temporal Database

Summary: Introduces HTQUEL, a query language tailored to a homogeneous temporal database model that represents time as a sequence of discrete instants. Unique in embedding temporal semantics into the classical relational framework to enable temporal querying using standard relational constructs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 718
Venue: PODS
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.8638788e-05
Overall Rank: 6,495 | 55.44%
DOI: 10.1145/325405.325412

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Authors

1. Shashi K. Gadia (Texas Tech University)
2. Jay H. Vaishnav (ESVEL, Inc.; Texas Tech University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gadia_pods85,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '85},
        title = {{A Query Language for a Homogeneous Temporal Database}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/325405.325412},
        doi = {10.1145/325405.325412},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Gadia, Shashi K. and Vaishnav, Jay H.},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,329	A Generalized Model For A Relational Temporal Database	1988	SIGMOD	7.5157137e-05
4,797	Temporal Modules: An Approach Toward Federated Temporal Databases	1993	SIGMOD	6.5025868e-05
9,907	Weak Temporal Relations	1986	PODS	5.1972596e-05
13,162	Temporal Relationships in Databases	1988	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
672	Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension	1984	SIGMOD	0.00015143745

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