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Temporal Logic & Historical Databases

Summary: Introduces temporal relational algebra operators corresponding closely to temporal logic’s since/until constructs. Shows limited encodings of the algebra in standard relational algebra, and of temporal SQL in standard SQL. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
8222
Venue
VLDB
Year
1991
Pagerank
8.7769303e-05
Overall Rank
2,304 | 84.20%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{gabbay_vldb91,
        title = {{Temporal Logic \& Historical Databases}},
        author = {Gabbay, Dov and McBrien, Peter},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '91},
        volume = {17},
        pages = {423--430},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
368 Continuous Queries over Append-Only Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.00019968151
597 Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation 1992 VLDB 0.00015921967
3,171 Temporal versus First-Order Logic to Query Temporal Databases 1996 PODS 7.6691319e-05
13,095 A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries 1992 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
676 On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views 1985 SIGMOD 0.00015072586
2,999 A Temporal Relational Algebra as a Basis for Temporal Relational Completeness 1990 VLDB 7.8712594e-05
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