Multidatabase Update Issues

Summary: Formal model of data updates in a multidatabase, plus a concurrency-control theory for it. A protocol for concurrent global and local transactions that ensures multidatabase consistency, deadlock freedom, and provable correctness, with complexity notes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2386
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 0.00011880833
Overall Rank: 1,459 | 89.87%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yuri Breitbart
2. Avi Silberschatz

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,216	Quasi Serializability: a Correctness Criterion for Global Concurrency Control in InterBase	1989	VLDB	0.00013240322
2,275	Specifying and Enforcing Intertask Dependencies	1993	VLDB	9.1378799e-05
3,267	Reliable Transaction Management in a Multidatabase System	1990	SIGMOD	7.3035588e-05
5,261	An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management	1991	SIGMOD	5.5963524e-05
7,071	Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions	2022	SIGMOD	4.8378766e-05
7,177	The Concurrency Control Problem in Multidatabases: Characteristics and Solutions	1992	SIGMOD	4.8044911e-05
7,994	Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD	2024	VLDB	4.607322e-05
9,916	Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes	2023	VLDB	4.2520778e-05
10,685	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,851	A Top-Down Approach For Two Level Serializability	1994	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
12,876	Concurrency Control and Recovery of Multidatabase Work Flows in Telecommunication Applications	1993	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,895	Ensuring Transaction Atomicity in Multidatabase Systems	1992	PODS	4.1905499e-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
678	Constructing Superviews	1981	SIGMOD	0.0001824315
2,989	Heterogeneity In The Distributed Database Management System Sirius-Delta	1982	VLDB	7.7739804e-05

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