VODAK Open Nested Transactions – Visualizing Database Internals

Summary: Open nested transactions via nested two-phase locking; subtransactions form hierarchies from method calls, with a commutativity on methods enabling parallelism. GUI-based demo visualizes locks, rollbacks, and recovery via inverse methods in VML. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2768
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,361 | 1.48%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.171564

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Authors

1. Peter Muth (GMD Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute)
2. Thomas C. Rakow (GMD Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{muth_sigmod93,
        title = {{VODAK Open Nested Transactions – Visualizing Database Internals}},
        author = {Muth, Peter and Rakow, Thomas C.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.171564},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.171564},
        year = {1993}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14,360	The V3 Video Server - Managing Analog and Digital Video Clips	1993	SIGMOD	-

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,348	Multi-Level Recovery	1990	PODS	7.4945952e-05

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