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Multilevel Transactions and Object-Model Transactions

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Layered transactions; Open nested transactions

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Multilevel transactions are a variant of nested transactions where nodes in a transaction tree correspond to executions of operations at particular levels of abstraction in a layered system architecture. The edges in a tree represent the implementation of an operation by a sequence (or partial ordering) or operations at the next lower level. An example instantiation of this model are transactions with record and index-key accesses as high-level operations which are in turn implemented by reads and writes of database pages as low-level operations. The model allows reasoning about the correctness of concurrent executions at different levels, aiming for serializability at the top level: equivalence to a sequential execution of the transaction roots. This way, semantic properties of operations, like different forms of commutativity, can be exploited for higher concurrency, and correctness proofs for the corresponding...

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  1. Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Gerhard Weikum

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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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Weikum, G. (2009). Multilevel Transactions and Object-Model Transactions. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_728

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