Temporal database systems are systems that provide special support for storing, querying, and updating historical and/or future data. Current DBMSs provide essentially no temporal features at all, but this situation is likely to change soon for a variety of reasons; in fact, temporal databases are virtually certain to become important sooner rather than later, in the commercial world as well as in academia. This book provides an in-depth description of the foundations and principles on which those temporal DBMSs will be built. These foundations and principles are firmly rooted in the relational model of data; thus, they represent an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one, and they will stand the test of time.
- ISBN10 128107294X
- ISBN13 9781281072948
- Publish Date 10 January 2010 (first published 3 December 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 422
- Language English