Atomic Garbage Collection: Managing a Stable Heap

Summary: Atomic Garbage Collection for stable heaps offers crash-consistent GC on durable heaps that endure crashes and media failures. It couples collection with recovery to ensure atomic moves and rewrites, avoiding disk-inconsistency. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2486
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1989
Pagerank: 5.8747822e-05
Overall Rank: 6,453 | 55.73%
DOI: 10.1145/67544.66928

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Elliot Kolodner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Barbara Liskov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
3. William Weihl (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kolodner_sigmod89,
        title = {{Atomic Garbage Collection: Managing a Stable Heap}},
        author = {Kolodner, Elliot and Liskov, Barbara and Weihl, William},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '89},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/67544.66928},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67544.66928},
        year = {1989}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,347	Atomic Incremental Garbage Collection and Recovery for a Large Stable Heap	1993	SIGMOD	7.4966771e-05
4,299	Partition Selection Policies in Object Database Garbage Collection	1994	SIGMOD	6.7749142e-05
7,227	Semi-automatic, Self-adaptive Control of Garbage Collection Rates in Object Databases	1996	SIGMOD	5.66667e-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
283	Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System	1986	VLDB	0.00022377907

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