An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management
Summary: An optimistic 2PC variant uses compensating transactions to release locks on commit vote, eliminating blocking and delivering semantic atomicity. Presents a semantics-based correctness criterion, reduces to serializability when no global aborts, and offers practical protocols that touch only global transactions while reusing standard 2PC messages. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Eliezer Levy (University of Texas)
- 2. Henry F. Korth (University of Texas)
- 3. Abraham Silberschatz (University of Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{levy_sigmod91,
title = {{An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management}},
author = {Levy, Eliezer and Korth, Henry F. and Silberschatz, Abraham},
series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/115790.115800},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115800},
year = {1991}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,931 | Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications | 1992 | VLDB | 6.4389004e-05 |
| 6,477 | PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.8682525e-05 |
| 6,983 | Ensuring Relaxed Atomicity for Flexible Transactions in Multidatabase Systems | 1994 | SIGMOD | 5.7303405e-05 |
| 8,445 | Chemistry behind Agreement | 2023 | CIDR | 5.4240058e-05 |
| 13,079 | Ensuring Transaction Atomicity in Multidatabase Systems | 1992 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | Sagas | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00038756588 |
| 480 | Nonblocking Commit Protocols | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00017789222 |
| 1,846 | Quasi Serializability: a Correctness Criterion for Global Concurrency Control in InterBase | 1989 | VLDB | 9.6268073e-05 |
| 2,523 | Multidatabase Update Issues | 1988 | SIGMOD | 8.4705778e-05 |
| 2,835 | A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions | 1990 | VLDB | 8.0726749e-05 |
| 4,309 | Reliable Transaction Management in a Multidatabase System | 1990 | SIGMOD | 6.7678593e-05 |
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