ResearchIndex

type:

misc

booktitle:

Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, October 3-5, 1979, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

year:

1981

month:

jun

journal:

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

annote:

Optimistic concurrency control protocols are introduced along with some detailed discussion of their implementations. 15 references.

volume:

6

publisher:

IEEE Computer Society

pages:

213--226

abstract:

Most current approaches to concurrency control in database systems rely on locking of data objects as a control mechanism. In this paper, two families of nonlocking concurrency controls are presented. The methods used are ``optimistic'' in the sense that they rely mainly on transaction backup as a control mechanism, ``hoping'' that conflicts between transactions will not occur. Applications for which these methods should be more efficient than locking are discussed.

number:

2

note:

Reprinted in \cite{Stonebraker:1988:RDS}.

editor:

Antonio L. Furtado and Howard L. Morgan

address:

1109 Spring Street, Suite 300, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA