Database snapshots

  • Authors:
  • Michel E. Adiba;Bruce G. Lindsay

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • VLDB '80 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1980

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Abstract

Many database applications require or will tolerate access to obsolete versions of the database. We propose the notion of system supported snapshots which periodically reflect selected portions of the database so as to allow applications to view the database "as of" an earlier time without having to execute at that time. We discuss snapshots semantics and implementation and we show the importance of the snapshot concept in centralized and distributed databases.