Using Write Protected Data Structures To Improve Software Fault Tolerance in Highly Available Database Management Systems

Summary: Hardware write-protection guards critical DBMS data structures to detect corrupted pointers and bounds overruns, improving reliability in extensible, highly available DBMSs. The study compares three update models and reports 2-11% performance degradation on a guarded buffer pool under a debit/credit workload. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8195
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 6.311233e-05
Overall Rank: 5,218 | 64.21%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Mark Sullivan (University of California Berkeley)
2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{sullivan_vldb91,
        title = {{Using Write Protected Data Structures To Improve Software Fault Tolerance in Highly Available Database Management Systems}},
        author = {Sullivan, Mark and Stonebraker, Michael},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '91},
        pages = {171--181},
        year = {1991}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,092	Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases	1997	VLDB	9.185168e-05
4,936	Tamper Detection in Audit Logs	2004	VLDB	6.4352403e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
599	Semantics and Implementation of Schema Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015910762

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