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: h091f59ef21de50f0
Venue: PODS
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 5.7323742e-05
Overall Rank: 6,618 | 55.51%
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
3,381	A Generalized Model For A Relational Temporal Database	1988	SIGMOD	7.3563641e-05
4,913	Temporal Modules: An Approach Toward Federated Temporal Databases	1993	SIGMOD	6.3577273e-05
10,094	Weak Temporal Relations	1986	PODS	5.0806471e-05
13,452	Temporal Relationships in Databases	1988	VLDB	4.9793485e-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
681	Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension	1984	SIGMOD	0.00014821572

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