A lightweight and efficient temporal database management system in TDSQL

Driven by the recent adoption of temporal expressions into SQL:2011, extensions of temporal support in conventional database management systems (a.b.a. DBMSs) have re-emerged as a research hotspot. In this paper, we present a lightweight yet efficient built-in temporal implementation in Tencent's distributed database management system, namely TDSQL. The novelty of TDSQL's temporal implementation includes: (1) a new temporal data model with the...