Distributed Logging for Transaction Processing

Summary: Distributed logging to multiple log servers for transaction processing recovery; examines shared facilities across workstations for cost, performance, and survivability. Presents low-latency buffers, simple protocols, and log-server disk structures; discusses prototype status and remaining design issues. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2395
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 5.6243039e-05
Overall Rank: 7,407 | 49.19%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38728

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Authors

1. Dean S Daniels (Carnegie Mellon University)
2. Alfred Z Spector (Carnegie Mellon University)
3. Dean S Thompson (Carnegie Mellon University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{daniels_sigmod87,
        title = {{Distributed Logging for Transaction Processing}},
        author = {Daniels, Dean S and Spector, Alfred Z and Thompson, Dean S},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38728},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38728},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,085	Crash Recovery in Client-Server EXODUS	1992	SIGMOD	6.3689054e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,551	Recovery Architectures for Multiprocessor Database Machines	1985	SIGMOD	6.178557e-05

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