The topic of dealing with history in databases seems to go most of the way back to the beginning of the field. I'm still hoping a copy of "Bubenko (1977) The Te

The topic of dealing with history in databases seems to go most of the way back to the beginning of the field. I'm still hoping a copy of "Bubenko (1977) The Temporal Dimension in Information Modelling" turns up on the web eventually as I'd love to read it. The 1980 paper you linked is touched on briefly at the beginning of this Strange Loop talk on "Light and Adaptive Indexing for Immutable Databases (2022)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-7TlceM5A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-7TlceM5A