Atomicity with Incompatible Presumptions

Summary: Identifies incompatibility among atomic commit protocols that blocks their composition and derives a correctness criterion for safe integration. Proposes Presumed Any, a new atomic commit protocol that unifies the three standard 2PC variants and proves its correctness. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1183
Venue: PODS
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,899 | 11.51%
DOI: 10.1145/303976.304006

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Authors

1. Yousef J. Al-Houmaily (Institute of Public Administration)
2. Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{alhoumaily_pods99,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '99},
        title = {{Atomicity with Incompatible Presumptions}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/303976.304006},
        doi = {10.1145/303976.304006},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Al-Houmaily, Yousef J. and Chrysanthis, Panos K.},
        year = {1999}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,818	A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit	1993	VLDB	7.0999246e-05

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