Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research
Summary: Historical survey of five decades of transaction processing, tracing early histories, platforms, and mechanisms. Explains persistence of transaction research and sketches future directions in concurrency, recovery, and distributed data-management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Philip Alan Bernstein (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bernstein_sigmod25,
title = {{Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research}},
author = {Bernstein, Philip Alan},
series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3722212.3727992},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3722212.3727992},
year = {2025}
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| 73 | Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases | 2017 | SIGMOD | 0.00037333356 |
| 604 | Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.0001584774 |
| 1,127 | Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.00012070177 |
| 1,445 | Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00010769388 |
| 14,363 | STDL - A Portable Language for Transaction Processing | 1993 | VLDB | - |
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