Concurrency on High-Traffic Data Elements

Summary: Tackles hot-spot contention on heavily accessed numeric aggregate fields by permitting concurrent arithmetic updates and reads to avoid 2PL-induced serialization. Generalizes the IMS Fast Path idea to broader numeric types and proves that, under algebraic conditions (commutativity/invertibility), such concurrent executions are equivalent to some serial schedule. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 613
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 6.6202221e-05
Overall Rank: 4,580 | 68.58%
DOI: 10.1145/588111.588126

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andreas Reuter (University of Kaiserslautern)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{reuter_pods82,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '82},
        title = {{Concurrency on High-Traffic Data Elements}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588126},
        doi = {10.1145/588111.588126},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Reuter, Andreas},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,533	Empirical Comparison of Database Concurrency Control Schemes	1983	VLDB	8.4562631e-05
5,004	High Contention in a Stock Trading Database: A Case Study	1988	SIGMOD	6.4039715e-05
5,934	Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data	1988	SIGMOD	6.0367168e-05
6,099	Transaction Repair for Multi-Version Concurrency Control	2017	SIGMOD	5.9776969e-05
6,468	A Practical and Modular Method to Implement Extended Transaction Models	1995	VLDB	5.8711447e-05
7,970	Locking Protocols for Materialized Aggregate Join Views	2003	VLDB	5.516316e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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