Transaction processing

Transactions, distributed and non-distributed.

Transactional data structure libraries

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Transactional Data Structure Libraries Spiegelman et al. PLDI 2016 Today’s choice won a distinguished paper award at the recent PLDI 2016 conference. Spiegelman et al. show how to add transactional support to in-memory concurrent data structure libraries in a way that doesn’t sacrifice performance. Since the advent of the multi-core revolution, many efforts have been ... Continue Reading

Blurred Persistence: Efficient Transactions in Persistent Memory

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Blurred Persistence: Efficient Transactions in Persistent Memory - Lu, Shu, & Sun, 2015 We had software transactional memory (STM), then hardware support for transactional memory (HTM), and now with persistent memory in which the memory plays the role of stable storage, we can have persistent transactional memory. And with persistent transactional memory, there's an issue ... Continue Reading

From ARIES to MARS: Transaction Support for Next-Generation Solid State Drives

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From ARIES to MARS: Transaction Support for Next-Generation Solid State Drives - Coburn et al. 2013 For the last couple of weeks we've been bouncing around the topics of transaction support and the implications of a non-volatile memory and super-fast networking on system design. We've seen statements such as 'the bandwidth and latency characteristics of ... Continue Reading

No Compromises: Distributed Transactions with Consistency, Availability, and Performance

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No Compromises: Distributed Transactions with Consistency, Availability, and Performance - Dragojević et al. 2015 Let's do a thought experiment. In the last couple of days we've been looking at transaction commit protocols and assessing their cost in terms of the number of message delays and forced-writes. But suppose for a moment that network I/O and ... Continue Reading

ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity Locking and Partial Rollbacks

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ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging - Mohan et al. 1992 This is part 5 of a 7 part series on (database) 'Techniques Everyone Should Know.' From Peter Bailis' introduction to this paper in chapter 3 of the Redbook: Another major problem in transaction processing is maintaining ... Continue Reading