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Distributed Transaction Management

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Transaction management in distributed database systems

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Distributed transaction management deals with the problems of always providing a consistent distributed database in the presence of a large number of transactions (local and global) and failures (communication link and/or site failures). This is accomplished through (i) distributed commit protocols that guarantee atomicity property; (ii) distributed concurrency control techniques to ensure consistency and isolation properties; and (iii) distributed recovery methods to preserve consistency and durability when failures occur.

Historical Background

A transaction is a sequence of actions on a database that forms a basic unit of reliable and consistent computing, and satisfies the ACID property. In a distributed database system (DDBS), transactions may be local or global. In local transactions, the actions access and update data in a single site only, and hence it is straightforward to ensure the ACID property....

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  1. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Wee Hyong Tok

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Tok, W.H. (2009). Distributed Transaction Management. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_710

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