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: 3033
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.7136764e-05
Overall Rank: 4,419 | 69.69%
DOI: 10.1145/253260.253366

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Authors

1. Ramesh Gupta (Indian Institute of Science)
2. Jayant Haritsa (Indian Institute of Science)
3. Krithi Ramamritham (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{gupta_sigmod97,
        title = {{Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems}},
        author = {Gupta, Ramesh and Haritsa, Jayant and Ramamritham, Krithi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/253260.253366},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253366},
        year = {1997}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
773	Low Overhead Concurrency Control for Partitioned Main Memory Databases	2010	SIGMOD	0.00014131021
1,063	High Performance Transactions via Early Write Visibility	2017	VLDB	0.00012343623
3,786	Releasing Locks As Early As You Can: Reducing Contention of Hotspots by Violating Two-Phase Locking	2021	SIGMOD	7.1264581e-05
9,692	Bonspiel: Low Tail Latency Transactions in Geo-Distributed Databases	2025	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
9,736	Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators	2024	VLDB	5.227679e-05
10,348	Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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
260	Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications	1985	SIGMOD	0.00023103999
480	Nonblocking Commit Protocols	1981	SIGMOD	0.00017789222
3,333	Distributed Concurrency Control Performance: A Study of Algorithms, Distribution, and Replication	1988	VLDB	7.5110985e-05
3,385	Load Control for Locking: The 'Half-and-Half' Approach	1990	PODS	7.4544138e-05
3,818	A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit	1993	VLDB	7.0999246e-05
7,984	Parallelism and Concurrency Control Performance in Distributed Database Machines	1989	SIGMOD	5.5132407e-05

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