Lazy Updates for Distributed Search Structure

Summary: Lazy updates for distributed search structures enable scalable, low-overhead replication and high concurrency. Avoids synchronization unlike eager updates, easing implementation; demonstrated on the dB-tree (distributed B+ tree) with a general correctness framework. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2716
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 8.3494816e-05
Overall Rank: 2,605 | 82.13%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170085

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Authors

1. Theodore Johnson (University of Florida)
2. Padmashree Krishna (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{johnson_sigmod93,
        title = {{Lazy Updates for Distributed Search Structure}},
        author = {Johnson, Theodore and Krishna, Padmashree},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170085},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170085},
        year = {1993}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,552	RP*: A Family of Order-Preserving Scalable Distributed Data Structures	1994	VLDB	8.4284603e-05
3,454	Towards Self-Tuning Data Placement in Parallel Database Systems	2000	SIGMOD	7.4001286e-05
4,075	Distributing a Search Tree Among a Growing Number of Processors	1994	SIGMOD	6.9224298e-05
4,374	Distributed File Organization with Scalable Cost/Performance	1994	SIGMOD	6.7370696e-05
5,417	Guaranteeing Correctness and Availability in P2P Range Indices	2005	SIGMOD	6.2255551e-05
8,953	Delay Aware Querying with Seaweed	2006	VLDB	5.3458888e-05
12,967	Finding Data in the Neighborhood	1997	VLDB	5.093636e-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
464	Concurrent Operations on B-Trees with Overtaking	1985	PODS	0.00018055592
2,738	Utilization of B-trees with Inserts, Deletes and Modifies	1989	PODS	8.1875737e-05
5,530	A Framework for the Performance Analysis of Concurrent B-tree Algorithms	1990	PODS	6.1856695e-05

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