Synapse Approach To Database Recovery

Summary: Synapse uses a dual-log OLTP recovery architecture: separate logical and physical logs with timestamped write-ahead logging to deliver integrity, availability and high performance. The two-log mechanism supports online reorgs (backup, secondary B-trees, add/drop columns) and modular growth while providing fail-safe, simple-to-use storage and recovery. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 686
Venue: PODS
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 5.8650397e-05
Overall Rank: 6,489 | 55.49%
DOI: 10.1145/588011.588024

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Kee S. Ong (Synapse Computer Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ong_pods84,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '84},
        title = {{SYNAPSE APPROACH TO DATABASE RECOVERY}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588011.588024},
        doi = {10.1145/588011.588024},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Ong, Kee S.},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,348	Multi-Level Recovery	1990	PODS	7.4945952e-05
8,325	A Performance Evaluation of Multi-Level Transaction Management	1991	VLDB	5.4538485e-05

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