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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. Department 5: Databases and Information Systems, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Gerhard Weikum

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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Weikum, G. (2018). Multilevel Transactions and Object-Model 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_728

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