Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems

Summary: Simulation-based profiling shows commit processing often dominates throughput relative to data processing. OPT, an optimistic protocol borrowing uncommitted data, coexists with Presumed Commit/Abort and, in a three-phase form, outperforms standard two-phase protocols. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2971
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.0373208e-05
Overall Rank: 4,629 | 67.80%
DOI: -

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1,090	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.0001415654
1,521	High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility	2017	VLDB	0.00011532045
4,721	Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking	2021	SIGMOD	5.9729623e-05
9,554	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	4.3254416e-05
9,602	Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators	2024	VLDB	4.3177432e-05
10,056	Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
190	Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications	1985	SIGMOD	0.0003579699
375	Nonblocking Commit Protocols	1981	SIGMOD	0.00025176239
3,031	Distributed Concurrency Control Performance: A Study of Algorithms, Distribution, and Replication	1988	VLDB	7.6775693e-05
3,089	A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit	1993	VLDB	7.5893456e-05
3,692	Load Control for Locking: The 'Half-and-Half' Approach	1990	PODS	6.8368785e-05
7,593	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	4.7019508e-05

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