Indexing valid time databases via B+ -trees

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 929-947

  Nascimento, Mario A ^a,c   Dunham, Margaret H ^b,d  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b IEEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d Southern Methodist University   (United States)

Author keywords

Access structures; B + trees; Indexing; R trees; Temporal databases

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA STRUCTURES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACCESS STRUCTURES; TEMPORAL DATABASES; TIME INDEX;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033342796     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.824609     Document Type: Article

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