Analysis of Distributed Commit Protocols

Summary: Proposes a probabilistic model of distributed systems (network plus processing) with a window of uncertainty to quantify blocking risk. Evaluates atomic commit protocols, delivering blocking metrics and highlighting vulnerability under partitions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2245
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 6.7554093e-05
Overall Rank: 4,338 | 70.24%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582385

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eric C. Cooper (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cooper_sigmod82,
        title = {{Analysis of Distributed Commit Protocols}},
        author = {Cooper, Eric C.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582385},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582385},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,811	A Recovery Algorithm for a Distributed Database System	1983	PODS	7.1060924e-05
6,568	Optimal Termination Protocols for Network Partitioning	1983	PODS	5.8378055e-05
13,159	Commitment In A Partitioned Distributed Database	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
480	Nonblocking Commit Protocols	1981	SIGMOD	0.00017789222
2,299	A Locking Protocol For Resource Coordination In Distributed Databases	1978	SIGMOD	8.7874096e-05

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