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Design Issues in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems

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Current Issues in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2000, DASFAA 2000)

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In a transaction-time temporal object database system (ODB) an object update creates a new object version, but the old versions are still accessible. Each object version has an associated timestamp, and this versioning, related to time, is supported and maintained by the system. The system also provides support for querying the temporal data. The area of temporal ODBs is still immature, and there are many design issues that need to be solved. In this paper, we discuss some issues and possible solutions derived from the design of the Vagabond temporal ODB. This includes physical object storage, clustering of temporal objects, OID indexing, and language bindings in a temporal ODB.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Kjetil Nørvåg

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Pod Vodárenskou věží 2, 182 07, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    Július Štuller

  2. Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorný

  3. Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology, P.O. Box 101344, 03013, Cottbus, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

  4. Faculty of Science, Department of Information Science, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8610, Japan

    Yoshifumi Masunaga

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Nørvåg, K. (2000). Design Issues in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems. In: Štuller, J., Pokorný, J., Thalheim, B., Masunaga, Y. (eds) Current Issues in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS DASFAA 2000 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1884. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44472-6_32

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