Period Index
Andreas Behrend, Anton Dignös, Johann Gamper, Philip Schmiegelt, Hannes Voigt, Matthias Rottmann, Karsten Kahl · 2019
Today, most commercial database systems provide some support for the management of temporal data, but the index support for efficiently accessing such data is rather limited. Existing access paths neglect the fact that time intervals are located on the timeline and have a duration, two important pieces of information for querying temporal data.