A hybrid distributed centralized system structure for transaction processing

Author

Ciciani, Bruno ; Dias, Daniel M. ; Iyer, Balakrishna R. ; Yu, Philip S.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Volume

16

Issue

8

fYear

1990

fDate

8/1/1990 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

791

Lastpage

806

Abstract

A hybrid system structure comprised of distributed systems to take advantage of locality of reference and a central system to handle transactions that access non-local data is examined. Several transaction processing applications, such as reservation systems, insurance and banking have such regional locality of reference. A concurrency and coherency control protocol that maintains the integrity of the data and performs well for transactions that access local or non-local data is described. It is shown that the performance of the hybrid system is much less sensitive to the fraction of remote accesses than the distributed system and offers similar performance to the distributed system for local transactions

Keywords

concurrency control; data integrity; distributed processing; transaction processing; banking; central system; coherency control protocol; concurrency; distributed systems; hybrid distributed centralized system structure; insurance; integrity; local transactions; locality; non-local data; remote accesses; reservation systems; transaction processing applications; Banking; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Delay; Distributed control; Distributed databases; Insurance; Performance analysis; Spatial databases; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.57619

Filename

57619