On the Power of Locking
Summary: Assesses the expressive power of locking primitives for concurrency control. Gives a necessary-and-sufficient condition to implement a CC principle with binary semaphores and characterizes precisely which lock sets are no more powerful than binary semaphores. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 333 | On Concurrency Control by Multiple Versions | 1982 | PODS | 0.00027134384 |
| 1,563 | Basic Timestamp, Multiple Version Timestamp, and Two-Phase Locking | 1983 | VLDB | 0.00011344875 |
| 3,423 | Is Distributed Locking Harder? | 1982 | PODS | 7.1067614e-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 |
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| 346 | An Optimality Theory of Concurrency Control for Databases | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00026589144 |
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| 4,395 | Experimental Evaluation of Real-Time Optimistic Concurrency Control Schemes | 1991 | VLDB | 6.2154838e-05 |
| 3,354 | An Abstract Model of Database Concurrency Control Algorithms | 1983 | SIGMOD | 7.1812114e-05 |
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| 2,306 | Hybrid Concurrency Control for Abstract Data Types (Extended Abstract) | 1988 | PODS | 9.064021e-05 |
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