ResearchIndex

editor:

Allen B. Tucker

abstract:

Introduction Many service-oriented businesses and organizations, such as banks, airlines, catalog retailers, hospitals, etc. have grown to depend on fast, reliable, and correct access to their {"}mission-critical{"} data on a constant basis. In many cases, particularly for global enterprises, 7x24 access is required; that is, the data must be available seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Data Base Management Systems (DBMS) are often employed to meet these stringent performance, availability, and reliability demands. As a result, two of the core functions of a DBMS are: 1) to protect the data stored in the database and 2) to provide correct and highly available access to that data in the presence of concurrent access by large and diverse user populations, and despite various software and hardware failures. The responsibility for these functions resides in the concurrency control and recovery components of the DBMS software. Concurrency contr

month:

may # "~09

annote:

Michael J. Franklin (Department of Computer Science and UMIACS; University of Maryland; College Park

type:

misc

pages:

1058--1077

year:

1997

publisher:

CRC Press

booktitle:

The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook