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Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications
Summary: Critically evaluates modeling assumptions in prior concurrency-control performance studies using a complete database-environment model. Compares three CC approaches across varied modeling assumptions to explain conflicting results and assesses realism for real DB systems.
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Paper ID
2329
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1985
Pagerank
0.00023103999
Overall Rank
260 | 98.22%
DOI
10.1145/318898.318909
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{agrawal_sigmod85,
title = {{Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications}},
author = {Agrawal, Rakesh and Carey, Michael J. and Livny, Miron},
series = {{SIGMOD} '85},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/318898.318909},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318898.318909},
year = {1985}
}
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