Temporal Extension to ODMG

A. Sotiropoulou, M. Souillard, C. Vassilakis
in Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology, Vol. 2, Issues and Applications of Database Technology (IADT), Berlin, Germany, 1998, pp. 304-311.

Abstract:
In the past years a number of temporal extensions to the different database models have been proposed. Extensions to the relational model have been following the different SQL standards, while no attempts have been made to extend the OO-databases' standard, defined by ODMG. In this paper we present a temporal extension to the ODMG standard, as this has been specified in the TOOBIS project. A Temporal Object Data Model, a Temporal Object Definition Language and a Temporal Object Query Language have been specified and have been proposed as extensions to the ODM, ODL and OQL of ODMG. This extension has been implemented over a commercial OODBMS, reinforcing and validating the effort of standardisation and portability of this extension.

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