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Transaction Management for Cloud-Based Graph Databases

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Many graph databases, both open and proprietary, have been recently developed to efficiently store and manage graph structured data. As the volume of such data grows, graph databases most often offer distributed solutions implemented in a cloud infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on transaction management for such cloud-based graph databases. In particular, we use various graph databases as case studies to survey the different levels of transaction support and concurrency control protocols offered. We also study data distribution issues and replication protocols. Finally, we highlight open issues that need to be addressed in the future.

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Research co-financed by the ESF and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of NSRF-Research Funding Program: Thales: Cloud9.

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  1. Applied Informatics Department, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Georgia Koloniari

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Evaggelia Pitoura

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    Ioannis Karydis

  2. Ionian University, Corfu, Greece

    Spyros Sioutas

  3. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Peter Triantafillou

  4. Ionian University, Kerkyra, Greece

    Dimitrios Tsoumakos

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Koloniari, G., Pitoura, E. (2016). Transaction Management for Cloud-Based Graph Databases. In: Karydis, I., Sioutas, S., Triantafillou, P., Tsoumakos, D. (eds) Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing. ALGOCLOUD 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9511. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29919-8_8

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