A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions
Summary: Introduces a formal model for recovery using compensating transactions to undo effects of committed or uncommitted operations without cascading aborts. Characterizes a spectrum of correct compensations—from undo to application-specific schemes—suited for long-running and nested transactions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Henry F. Korth (University of Texas)
- 2. Eliezer Levy (University of Texas)
- 3. Abraham Silberschatz (University of Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@article{korth_vldb90,
title = {{A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions}},
author = {Korth, Henry F. and Levy, Eliezer and Silberschatz, Abraham},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '90},
year = {1990}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,680 | MLR: A Recovery Method for Multi-level Systems | 1992 | SIGMOD | 7.2042508e-05 |
| 4,006 | Bounded Ignorance in Replicated Systems | 1991 | PODS | 6.9633182e-05 |
| 4,931 | Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications | 1992 | VLDB | 6.4389004e-05 |
| 5,292 | An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management | 1991 | SIGMOD | 6.2800097e-05 |
| 6,151 | Replication and Consistency: Being Lazy Helps Sometimes | 1997 | PODS | 5.9578457e-05 |
| 6,983 | Ensuring Relaxed Atomicity for Flexible Transactions in Multidatabase Systems | 1994 | SIGMOD | 5.7303405e-05 |
| 7,993 | Compensation-Aware Data Types in RDBMS | 2009 | SIGMOD | 5.5098775e-05 |
| 8,335 | Hydro: A Heterogeneous Distributed Database System | 1991 | SIGMOD | 5.4517822e-05 |
| 8,563 | Triggered Real-Time Databases with Consistency Constraints | 1990 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 13,093 | A Proclamation-Based Model for Cooperating Transactions | 1992 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | Sagas | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00038756588 |
| 497 | The Design of XPRS | 1988 | VLDB | 0.00017462492 |
| 1,287 | Abstraction in Recovery Management | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00011320549 |
| 2,450 | Formal Model of Correctness Without Serializability | 1988 | SIGMOD | 8.565918e-05 |
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