Introduction

Time traveling allows you to view and compare different aspects of your arrays over time.

Time traveling is powerful functionality that allows you to read an array subselecting over the various write operations that have been performed over time. For more information on time traveling, visit the Key Concepts: Time Traveling section.

This section covers time traveling across three different aspects of arrays:

• Fragments, which accounts for the data write operations.
• Array metadata, which accounts for the metadata written to the array.
• Schema evolution, which accounts for changes performed on the array schema over time.

Once you understand how time traveling works on the above three aspects, you will then be able to mix and match these to get the most value from your TileDB arrays.