A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities

Summary: Introduces a recursive model for long-running activities, where steps may be subactivities or transactions, with comms and failure semantics. Supports status querying and uses recoverable queues to chain steps, enabling compensation and exception handling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7999
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 0.00011735776
Overall Rank: 1,481 | 89.70%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
484	Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation	1992	VLDB	0.00022086995
687	Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database	1992	SIGMOD	0.0001815095
1,384	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00012262892
2,270	Specifying and Enforcing Intertask Dependencies	1993	VLDB	9.1467207e-05
3,634	Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications	1992	VLDB	6.8986478e-05
3,813	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.735525e-05
7,245	Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues	2001	VLDB	4.7909611e-05
9,732	DARQ Matter Binds Everything: Performant and Composable Cloud Programming via Resilient Steps	2023	SIGMOD	4.2942813e-05
12,845	Towards Event-Driven Modelling for Database Design	1994	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
12,862	Third Generation TP Monitors: A Database Challenge	1993	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-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
45	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00071800944
862	Implementing Recoverable Requests Using Queues	1990	SIGMOD	0.00015845857
1,075	Organizing Long-Running Activities with Triggers and Transactions	1990	SIGMOD	0.00014250476
1,589	A Theoretical Foundation Of Multi-Level Concurrency Control	1986	PODS	0.00011238248
1,798	A Multidatabase Transaction Model for InterBase	1990	VLDB	0.00010520589
2,431	ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior	1990	SIGMOD	8.8329645e-05
2,565	Concurrency Control in Groupware Systems	1989	SIGMOD	8.5261082e-05
3,194	A Transaction Mechanism for Engineering Design Databases	1984	VLDB	7.4052155e-05
4,912	Cooperative Transaction Hierarchies: A Transaction Model to Support Design Applications	1990	VLDB	5.8321169e-05

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