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ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes

Summary: ARIES/KVL provides serializable key-value locking for multiaction B-tree transactions, including range and inequality scans. It permits page traversal/splits and concurrent reads or updates despite key waits, while avoiding rollback deadlocks via IX/SIX semantics. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
8151
Venue
VLDB
Year
1990
Pagerank
0.00024680756
Overall Rank
214 | 98.54%
DOI
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BibTeX Citation

@article{mohan_vldb90,
        title = {{ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes}},
        author = {Mohan, C.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '90},
        pages = {392--403},
        year = {1990}
}

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464 Concurrent Operations on B-Trees with Overtaking 1985 PODS 0.00018055592
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5,119 Commit LSN: A Novel and Simple Method for Reducing Locking and Latching in Transaction Processing Systems 1990 VLDB 6.3577506e-05
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