Abstract:Abstract. Transaction-time databases have been proposed for storing and querying the history of a database. While past work concentrated on managing the data evolution assuming a static schema, recent research has considered data changes under a linearly evolving schema. An ordered sequence of schema versions is maintained and the database can restore/query its data under the appropriate past schema. There are however many applications leading to a branched schema evolution where data can evolve in parallel, u… Show more
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