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Temporal Object-Oriented Databases

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Definition

In a strict sense, a temporal object-oriented database is a database managed by an object-oriented database system able to explicitly deal with (possibly) several temporal dimensions of data. The managed temporal dimensions are usually valid and/or transaction times. In a wider sense, a temporal object-oriented database is a collection of data having some temporal aspect and managed by an object-oriented database system.

Historical Background

Research studies on time, temporal information, and object-oriented data started at the end of 1980s and continued in the 1990s. From the seminal work by Clifford and Croker on objects in time [4], several different topics have been discussed. Segev and Rose studied both the modeling issues and the definition of suitable query languages [12]; Wuu and Dayal showed how to use an object-oriented data model to properly represent several temporal aspects of data [14]; Goralwalla et al. studied the adoption and extension of an...

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    Carlo Combi

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Combi, C. (2009). Temporal Object-Oriented Databases. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_404

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