Benefits of Time Indexing

The benefits of using Time Indexing are multiple.

Time Indexing provides a consistent and coherent framework for undertaking time-based operations. By having this framework, which works across all data which has a time element, brings a harmonising effect to all time processing. Therefore, the effort required to do any time based processes is reduced. Becuase the effort is reduced then the subsequent cost of managing the data is also reduced.

Time Indexing has no operations that modify or delete any data. As a consequence a time index maintains data integrity and data security through the lifetime of the application.

The combination of data immutability and the harmonisation of processes, allows broader goals to be achieved. These including such things as data sharing, data integrity, data overlaying, time cross-referencing, and powerful data analysis capabilities.

By using the high level operations that allow multiple time-indexes to be utilized, more complex time-indexed applications can be created, which allow unstructured data to be associated by time.

What about relational databases

Time Indexing has many benefits for dealing with time ordered data compared to a traditional relational database.