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Temporal Compatibility

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Temporal compatibility captures properties of temporal languages with respect to the nontemporal languages that they extend. Temporal compatibility, when satisfied, ensures a smooth migration of legacy applications from a nontemporal system to a temporal system. Temporal compatibility dictates the semantics of legacy statements and constrains the semantics of temporal extensions to these statements, as well as the language design.

Historical Background

Since the very early days of temporal database research, the compatibility with legacy languages and systems have been considered, but the first comprehensive investigation was reported by Bair et al. [2]. Compatibility issues are common for work done in the context of systems and commercial languages, such as SQL or Quel. Theoretical or logic-based approaches usually do not explore compatibility notions since they tend to strictly separate temporal from nontemporal structures.

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  1. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

    Michael H. Böhlen

  2. University of Aalborg, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, DK-9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, 711 Gould Simpson, P.O. Box 210077, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

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  1. Michael H. Böhlen
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

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

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, 711 Gould Simpson, P.O. Box 210077, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Richard T. Snodgrass

  2. Aalborg University, Selma Lagerlöfs Vej 300, DK-9220, Aalborg Øst, Denmark

    Christian S. Jensen PhD

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Böhlen, M.H., Jensen, C.S., Snodgrass, R.T. (2017). Temporal Compatibility. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1059-2

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