Transaction Support in Read Optimized and Write Optimized File Systems

Summary: Compares five placements of transaction support across read- versus write-optimized file systems, including two filesystem-embedded logging designs. Write optimization generally wins; embedded transaction managers match data managers under I/O limits and nearly match them when CPU-bound. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8132
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1990
Pagerank: 5.5440082e-05
Overall Rank: 7,790 | 46.56%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Margo Seltzer (University of California Berkeley)
2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{seltzer_vldb90,
        title = {{Transaction Support in Read Optimized and Write Optimized File Systems}},
        author = {Seltzer, Margo and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '90},
        pages = {174--185},
        year = {1990}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,731	Write-Optimized B-Trees	2004	VLDB	9.9081882e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
133	A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)	1988	SIGMOD	0.00030370315
13,190	Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager	1987	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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