What you describe isn't a bitemporal database though, it's a temporal one. Bitemporality afaik means that you get two views on your data, one that describes st

What you describe isn't a bitemporal database though, it's a temporal one. Bitemporality afaik means that you get two views on your data, one that describes state relative to individual writers (what you saw at write time in a distributed and potentially inconsistent system) and what is actually true considering global state (what if you had had absolute knowledge of the distributed state at write time).