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Transaction-Time Indexing

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Transaction-time access methods

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A transaction-time index is a temporal index that enables fast access to transaction-time datasets. In a traditional database, an index is used for selection queries. When accessing transaction-time databases, selection queries also involve the transaction-time dimension. The characteristics of the transaction-time axis imply various properties that such temporal index should have to be efficient. As with traditional indices, the performance is described by three costs: (i) storage cost (i.e., the number of pages the index occupies on the disk), (ii) update cost (the number of pages accessed to perform an update on the index, for example, when adding, deleting, or updating a record), and (iii) query cost (the number of pages accessed for the index to answer a query).

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Most of the early work on temporal indexing has concentrated on providing solutions for transaction-time databases. A basic property of transaction...

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  1. Departamento de Ciencia da Computaçao, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Mirella M. Moro

  2. University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    Vassilis J. Tsotras

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Correspondence to Mirella M. Moro .

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

  2. Aalborg University, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen

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Moro, M.M., Tsotras, V.J. (2018). Transaction-Time Indexing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_399

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