Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager
Summary: Direct performance comparison of an OS-level transaction manager and a DBMS transaction manager, with modeled concurrency control and crash recovery across varied simulations. Results show OS-level TM incurs severe performance penalties and is feasible only in specialized circumstances. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Akhil Kumar (University of California Berkeley)
- 2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kumar_vldb87,
title = {{Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager}},
author = {Kumar, Akhil and Stonebraker, Michael},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '87},
year = {1987}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 7,790 | Transaction Support in Read Optimized and Write Optimized File Systems | 1990 | VLDB | 5.5440082e-05 |
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| 260 | Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00023103999 |
| 2,072 | Basic Timestamp, Multiple Version Timestamp, and Two-Phase Locking | 1983 | VLDB | 9.2211825e-05 |
| 2,911 | The Performance of Concurrency Control Algorithms for Database Management Systems | 1984 | VLDB | 7.9695999e-05 |
| 4,124 | Choice and Performance in Locking for Databases | 1984 | VLDB | 6.8865551e-05 |
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