Towards an implementation of database management systems with temporal support

Abstract

There are several issues to be investigated for implementation of database management systems with temporal support. Examples are the types of databases in terms of temporal support, handling of ever-growing storage size, use of optical disks, representation of temporal versions into physical storage, and efficient access methods for both temporal and non-temporal queries. This paper discusses characteristics of tuple versioning vs. attribute versioning, two distinct representation schemes for temporal versions. It then presents various forms of two level storage structures tailored for databases with temporal support.