A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronization Mechanism

Summary: Hardware-based synchronization to cut concurrency-control overhead in multiprocessor transaction processing. Symmetry-aware, table-driven scheme reduces protocol tables to generic hardware, delivering a fast, general-purpose CC mechanism with a practical prototype and real-world results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2330
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 6.0770946e-05
Overall Rank: 5,819 | 60.08%
DOI: 10.1145/318898.318910

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. John T. Robinson (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{robinson_sigmod85,
        title = {{A Fast General-Purpose Hardware Synchronization Mechanism}},
        author = {Robinson, John T.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '85},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/318898.318910},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318898.318910},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,282	Improving OLTP Scalability using Speculative Lock Inheritance	2009	VLDB	0.00011338762
6,591	Performance Analysis of Coherency Control Policies through Lock Retention	1992	SIGMOD	5.8312871e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
1,471	A Study of the Effects of Locking Granularity in a Data Base Management System	1977	SIGMOD	0.00010671012

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