Timeline Index: A Unified Data Structure for Processing Queries on Temporal Data in SAP HANA
Summary: Timeline Index, a unified data structure for temporal queries (temporal aggregation, time travel, temporal joins) in SAP HANA. Order-agnostic design enables flexible compression for in-memory column stores, delivering predictable performance and sometimes orders-of-magnitude gains over state-of-the-art. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Martin Kaufmann (ETH Zurich; SAP)
- 2. Amin A. Manjili (ETH Zurich; SAP)
- 3. Panagiotis Vagenas (ETH Zurich; SAP)
- 4. Peter M. Fischer (Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
- 5. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
- 6. Franz Färber (SAP)
- 7. Norman May (SAP)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kaufmann_sigmod13,
title = {{Timeline Index: A Unified Data Structure for Processing Queries on Temporal Data in SAP HANA}},
author = {Kaufmann, Martin and Manjili, Amin A. and Vagenas, Panagiotis and Fischer, Peter M. and Kossmann, Donald and Färber, Franz and May, Norman},
series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465293},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465293},
year = {2013}
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System | 1987 | VLDB | 0.00033939695 |
| 686 | Access Methods For Multiversion Data | 1989 | SIGMOD | 0.00014736882 |
| 818 | Design, Implementation, and Performance of the LHAM Log-Structured History Data Access Method | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00013657405 |
| 2,034 | The Time Index: An Access Structure for Temporal Data | 1990 | VLDB | 9.1378213e-05 |
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