Definition


A temporal tuple is temporally homogeneous if the lifespan of all attribute values within it are identical. A temporal relation is said to be temporally homogeneous if its tuples are temporally homogeneous. A temporal database is said to be temporally homogeneous if all its relations are temporally homogeneous. In addition to being specific to a type of object (tuple, relation, database), homogeneity is also specific to some time dimension, as in ``temporally homogeneous in the valid-time dimension'' or ``temporally homogeneous in the transaction-time dimension.''