The Need for Distributed Asynchronous Transactions
Summary: Industry-scale Boeing experience motivates asynchronous transactions as an alternative to costly synchronous distributed transactions. Outlines requirements, benefits/limitations, and open issues for deploying distributed asynchronous transactions at scale. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Lyman Do (The Boeing Company)
- 2. Prabhu Ram (The Boeing Company)
- 3. Pamela Drew (The Boeing Company)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{do_sigmod99,
title = {{The Need for Distributed Asynchronous Transactions}},
author = {Do, Lyman and Ram, Prabhu and Drew, Pamela},
series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/304182.304250},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304250},
year = {1999}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,195 | Best-Effort Cache Synchronization with Source Cooperation | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00011727947 |
| 12,850 | Information Management challenges from the Aerospace Industry | 2002 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,703 | Issues in Developing Very Large Data Warehouses | 1998 | VLDB | 6.1147109e-05 |
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