Phoenix: Making Applications Robust

Summary: Extends recovery to include session and application state for higher availability. Uses redo recovery to enable persistent app state with reduced logging; Phoenix ODBC prototype provides server sessions that survive crashes with no client impact. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3217
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.8791891e-05
Overall Rank: 6,437 | 55.84%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304577

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Roger Barga (Microsoft)
2. David B. Lomet (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{barga_sigmod99,
        title = {{Phoenix: Making Applications Robust}},
        author = {Barga, Roger and Lomet, David B.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304577},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304577},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,232	A.M.B.R.O.S.I.A: Providing Performant Virtual Resiliency for Distributed Applications	2020	VLDB	6.3067852e-05
9,895	DARQ Matter Binds Everything: Performant and Composable Cloud Programming via Resilient Steps	2023	SIGMOD	5.1997534e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,104	Redo Recovery after System Crashes	1995	VLDB	6.3641018e-05
12,924	Efficient Transparent Application Recovery In Client-Server Information Systems	1998	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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