Precision Locks

Summary: Precision locks (PL) lock required tuples for correctness, phantoms included, yielding peak concurrency. A framework reveals locking errors; PL supports arbitrary predicates, enforces 2-phase transactions, and is cheaper than conventional locking. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2152
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1981
Pagerank: 0.00010719584
Overall Rank: 1,739 | 87.91%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
419	Fast Serializable Multi-Version Concurrency Control for Main-Memory Database Systems	2015	SIGMOD	0.00023720338
520	An Overview of The System Software of A Parallel Relational Database Machine GRACE	1986	VLDB	0.00021152636
4,840	Solving the Phantom Problem by Predicative Optimistic Concurrency Control	1983	VLDB	5.8864974e-05
5,244	Cooperative Update Exchange in the Youtopia System	2009	VLDB	5.6069303e-05
5,822	Ad Hoc Transactions in Web Applications: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	2022	SIGMOD	5.313161e-05
6,529	Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control	2017	SIGMOD	5.0252405e-05
6,585	Adaptive Optimistic Concurrency Control for Heterogeneous Workloads	2019	VLDB	5.0024028e-05
7,353	Contest of XML Lock Protocols	2006	VLDB	4.7533776e-05
10,606	Oze: Decentralized Graph-based Concurrency Control for Long-running Update Transactions	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,736	TreeCat: Standalone Catalog Engine for Large Data Systems	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
577	A Study of the Effects of Locking Granularity in a Data Base Management System	1977	SIGMOD	0.00019848992

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