Is Distributed Locking Harder?
Summary: Deciding if a set of locked transactions on a distributed database guarantees serializability is coNP-complete, vs. polynomial for centralized systems. Provides a geometric/hypergraph characterization of all correct locking policies, the exact power of locking, and a polynomial test for two-site systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Paris C. Kanellakis (Brown University)
- 2. Christos H. Papadimitriou (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National Technical University of Athens)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{kanellakis_pods82,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '82},
title = {{Is Distributed Locking Harder?}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588129},
doi = {10.1145/588111.588129},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Kanellakis, Paris C. and Papadimitriou, Christos H.},
year = {1982}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,383 | A Sophisticate's Introduction to Distributed Database Concurrency Control | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0001096307 |
| 13,210 | DEADLOCK-FREEDOM (AND SAFETY) OF TRANSACTIONS IN A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE (Extended Abstract) | 1985 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,299 | A Locking Protocol For Resource Coordination In Distributed Databases | 1978 | SIGMOD | 8.7874096e-05 |
| 5,994 | On the Power of Locking | 1981 | SIGMOD | 6.0157542e-05 |
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