Temporal Queries in OLAP

Summary: Proposes a temporal multidimensional model and a query language to preserve and query dimension history in OLAP. Formalizes syntax/semantics, demonstrates via examples, and discusses translation to SQL:99, TSQL2, and implementation issues. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8651
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 6.5069749e-05
Overall Rank: 4,040 | 71.90%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Alberto O. Mendelzon
2. Alejandro A. Vaisman

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4,005	QC-Trees: An Efficient Summary Structure for Semantic OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	6.5414308e-05
12,679	SIT-IN: a Real-Life Spatio-Temporal Information System	2001	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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