Hierarchical Database Decomposition: A Technique for Database Concurrency Control
Summary: Decompose DB hierarchically into segments and transaction classes; use multiversioning and timestamp ordering confined to a transaction's root segment to ensure serializability. Enable lock-/read-timestamp-free reads to higher-level segments and nonblocking ad‑hoc read-only transactions, cutting read synchronization overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Meichun Hsu
- 2. Stuart E. Madnick
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,587 | Increasing Availability in Partitioned Database Systems (extended abstract) | 1984 | PODS | 6.9428835e-05 |
| 8,573 | Concurrent Operations in Extendible Hashing | 1986 | VLDB | 4.4937074e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 160 | Distributed Database Concurrency Controls Using Before-Values | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00039860001 |
| 332 | On Concurrency Control by Multiple Versions | 1982 | PODS | 0.00027208023 |
| 525 | The Implementation of An Integrated Concurrency Control and Recovery Scheme | 1982 | SIGMOD | 0.00021055923 |
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