An Experimental Comparison of Locking Policies in a Testbed Database System
Summary: Experimental comparison of file-, page-, and mixed-level locking in a simplified testbed DB using two-phase locking. Throughput depends on policy, lock mode (exclusive/share), and file size; results show large, workload- and system-dependent performance differences. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Walter H. Kohler (Digital Equipment Corporation; University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 2. Kenneth C. Wilner (Digital Equipment Corporation; ISACOMM; University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 3. John A. Stankovic (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kohler_sigmod83,
title = {{An Experimental Comparison of Locking Policies in a Testbed Database System}},
author = {Kohler, Walter H. and Wilner, Kenneth C. and Stankovic, John A.},
series = {{SIGMOD} '83},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/582192.582212},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582192.582212},
year = {1983}
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