Snapshot Isolation is a popular and efficient protocol for concurrency control. In this paper we discuss Snapshot Isolation in view of the classical theory for transaction process...
The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...
In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
Motivation: Database search programs such as FASTA, BLAST or a rigorous Smith–Waterman algorithm produce lists of database entries, which are assumed to be related to the query....
Strong consistency is an important correctness property for replicated databases. It ensures that each transaction accesses the latest committed database state as provided in centr...