Managing and Querying Transaction-time Databases under Schema Evolution

Summary: PRIMA publishes DB history in XML, unifying schema evolution with data. Current-schema queries are rewritten to versioned forms using SMOs and XML integrity constraint language (XIC) for scalable cross-version history queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9723
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 6.1110679e-05
Overall Rank: 4,521 | 68.58%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,677	Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench	2008	VLDB	0.00010929631
2,041	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.7026746e-05
3,008	Update Rewriting and Integrity Constraint Maintenance in a Schema Evolution Support System: PRISM++	2011	VLDB	7.72402e-05
4,442	PRIMA: Archiving and Querying Historical Data with Evolving Schemas	2009	SIGMOD	6.1793921e-05
6,954	Scalable Architecture and Query Optimization for Transaction-time DBs with Evolving Schemas	2010	SIGMOD	4.8815754e-05
8,774	CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design	2011	VLDB	4.4502549e-05
8,805	Online Schema Evolution is (Almost) Free for Snapshot Databases	2023	VLDB	4.4422549e-05
9,588	Data Integration and Data Exchange: It’s Really About Time	2013	CIDR	4.3175708e-05
10,770	MD-MVCC: Multi-version Concurrency Control for Schema Changes in Azure SQL Database	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,258	CODS: Evolving Data Efficiently and Scalably in Column Oriented Databases	2010	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
188	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00035935715
761	MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage	2003	VLDB	0.00016998994
868	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00015737664
1,186	Semantic Adaptation of Schema Mappings when Schemas Evolve	2005	VLDB	0.00013432464
1,677	Graceful Database Schema Evolution: the PRISM Workbench	2008	VLDB	0.00010929631
2,115	Rondo: A Programming Platform for Generic Model Management	2003	SIGMOD	9.5183357e-05
2,749	Implementing Mapping Composition	2006	VLDB	8.18014e-05
4,046	Querying Complex Structured Databases	2007	VLDB	6.5021302e-05
4,393	Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas	2003	VLDB	6.2184603e-05
4,879	Temporal Slicing in the Evaluation of XML Queries	2003	VLDB	5.8536378e-05
6,952	Indexing Temporal XML Documents	2004	VLDB	4.8817935e-05

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