DocumentCode :
3200229
Title :
Unilateral commit: a new paradigm for reliable distributed transaction processing
Author :
Hsu, Meichun ; Silberschatz, Avi
Author_Institution :
Digital Equipment Corp., Mountain View, CA, USA
fYear :
1991
fDate :
8-12 Apr 1991
Firstpage :
286
Lastpage :
293
Abstract :
An alternative approach to distributed transaction processing based on the unilateral commit paradigm (UCP) and on persistent transmission is proposed. Instead of executing a unit of work as a single distributed transaction, as in the traditional transaction execution paradigm, opportunities are looked for to execute it as a structured set or a sequence of smaller, possibly single-site atomic transactions. Each such transaction, once executed, is committed independently of other transactions in the task. A method for rigorously maintaining the linkage between the steps is provided for by a persistent transmission mechanism. It is argued that UCP is especially attractive since it relies on a site´s ability to execute conventional flat local transactions and does not require additional capabilities such as the ability to execute nested transactions
Keywords :
distributed databases; transaction processing; atomic transactions; paradigm; reliable distributed transaction processing; structured set; unilateral commit paradigm; Concurrency control; Couplings; Database systems; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Error correction; Programming profession; Protocols; Resource management; Transaction databases;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1991. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2138-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1991.131476
Filename :
131476
Link To Document :
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