Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension

Summary: Advocates integrated temporal support within DBMS, replacing the current snapshot view to retain history for governance, auditing, and trend analysis. Lays out temporal terminology and core DBMS requirements for time-aware storage and queries to generalize history management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h385b1b233a6bf3f8
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 0.00014821572
Overall Rank: 681 | 95.43%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602276

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{lum_sigmod84,
        title = {{Designing DBMS Support for the Temporal Dimension}},
        author = {Lum, V. and Dadam, P. and Erbe, R. and Guenauer, J. and Pistor, P. and Walch, G. and Werner, H. and Woodfill, J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602276},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602276},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 20 of 20 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
339	A Taxonomy of Time in Databases	1985	SIGMOD	0.00020570509
354	A DBMS Prototype to Support Extended NF2 Relations: An Integrated View on Flat Tables and Hierarchies	1986	SIGMOD	0.00020222123
691	On An Algebra For Historical Relational Databases. Two Views	1985	SIGMOD	0.00014743297
729	Logical Modeling Of Temporal Data	1987	SIGMOD	0.00014410979
1,010	Integration of Time Versions into a Relational Database System	1984	VLDB	0.00012539712
2,149	The Time Index: An Access Structure for Temporal Data	1990	VLDB	8.9552337e-05
2,859	Temporal Data Management	1986	VLDB	7.9338914e-05
2,992	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.7729638e-05
3,074	Performance Evaluation of a Temporal Database Management System	1986	SIGMOD	7.676884e-05
4,063	Event-Join Optimization in Temporal Relational Databases	1989	VLDB	6.823605e-05
4,413	Historical Multi-Media Databases	1986	VLDB	6.6101893e-05
6,054	Nested Historical Relations	1989	SIGMOD	5.9024935e-05
6,448	A Temporal Knowledge Representation Model OSAM*/T and Its Query Language OQL/T	1991	VLDB	5.7822982e-05
6,618	A Query Language for a Homogeneous Temporal Database	1985	PODS	5.7323742e-05
6,675	Using History Information to Process Delayed Database Updates	1986	VLDB	5.7124558e-05
7,453	Support for Temporal Data by Complex Objects	1990	VLDB	5.5231578e-05
7,681	Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases	1990	VLDB	5.4772833e-05
13,379	Realizing a Temporal Complex-Object Data Model	1992	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,385	A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries	1992	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,475	Providing Time-Related Constraints for Conventional Database Systems	1987	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075944947
1,010	Integration of Time Versions into a Relational Database System	1984	VLDB	0.00012539712
2,069	An Abstract Introduction to the Temporal-Hierarchic Data Model (THM)	1983	VLDB	9.0892916e-05
2,407	Modelling Information Preserving Databases: Consequences of the Concept of Time	1983	VLDB	8.5160078e-05

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