System D: A Distributed System for Availability

Summary: System D: distributed TPC focusing on availability and integrity; prototype on minicomputers. Innovations: distributed Resource Manager for auto-diagnosis; two-phase Direct Commit with fewer messages/IOs; datagram-based interprocess communication. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7537
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 5.3901639e-05
Overall Rank: 5,648 | 60.75%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,088	Transaction Management In An Object-Oriented Database System	1988	SIGMOD	4.8321743e-05
7,119	An Approach to Object Sharing in Distributed Database Systems	1983	VLDB	4.8200748e-05

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