TimeDB - A Temporal Relational DBMS

Read a short history of TimeDB.

Download the latest releases

• TimeDB 2.2 (Java 1.4, tested with IBM Cloudscape 10 and Oracle 10g)
• TimeDB 2.1 (Java 1.4, tested with IBM Cloudscape 10)
• TimeDB 2.0 Beta 4 (tested with older releases of Cloudscape, Oracle and Sybase)

The general download page for TimeDB can be found here.

ATSQL Publications referencing TimeDB

ATSQL, the temporal SQL dialect supported by TimeDB, has been proposed to both ANSI and ISO standard committees. More information about this can be found in the following papers:

ISO:

• Adding Valid Time to SQL/Temporal (May 10, 1996)
• Adding Transaction Time to SQL/Temporal (May 10, 1996)

ANSI:

• Adding Valid Time to SQL/Temporal (October 22, 1996)
• Adding Transaction Time to SQL/Temporal (October 22, 1996)

More information about the transfer of some of the constructs and insights of temporal database research to SQL3 can be found here.

Further publications referencing TimeDB