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ConTracts; Flexible transactions; S-transactions
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In database systems, a transaction is a sequence of actions performed on data items in a database. In a distributed database environment, a global transaction is a set of subtransactions, where each subtransaction is a transaction accessing the data items at a single local site. The flex transaction model supports flexible execution control flow by specifying two types of dependencies among the subtransactions of a global transaction: (i) execution ordering dependencies between two subtransactions, and (ii) alternative dependencies between two subsets of subtransactions.
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Flexible transaction models, such as ConTracts, Flex Transactions, S-transactions, and others [6108,6109,3], increase the failure resilience of global transactions by allowing alternate subtransactions to be executed when a local database site fails or a subtransaction aborts. In a non-flexible transaction, a global subtransaction abort is...
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Zhang, A., Bhargava, B. (2018). Flex Transactions. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_726
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