A Quantitative Comparison of Lock Protocols for Centralized Databases

Summary: Quantitative, discrete-event comparison of three centralized-database lock protocols (EGLT76, BAY76, BHR80). Analyzes concurrency vs. synchronization costs; shows higher transaction rates shift the tradeoff, extending lock-protocol analysis from distributed to centralized DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7588
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 6.9418919e-05
Overall Rank: 3,591 | 75.02%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. W. Kiessling
2. G. Landherr

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,088	Empirical Comparison of Database Concurrency Control Schemes	1983	VLDB	9.570953e-05
12,887	An Approach to Eliminate Transaction Blocking in Locking Protocols	1992	PODS	4.1945683e-05

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