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Nested Transactions extend the traditional semantics of transactions by allowing meaningful nesting of one or more child transactions within a parent transaction. Considering the traditional ACID properties of transactions, atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability, a child transaction possesses these properties in a relative way, such that a parent transaction effectively provides a universe within which its children act similarly to ordinary transactions in a non-nested system. In parallel computation, the traditional property of durability in the face of various kinds of system failures may not be required.
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Transactions
Transactions are a way of guaranteeing atomicity of more or less arbitrary sequences of code in a parallel computation. Unlike locks, which identify computations that may need serialization according to the identity of held and requested locks, transaction serialization is...
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Moss, J.E.B. (2011). Transactions, Nested. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_487
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