The Double Life of the Transaction Abstraction: Fundamental Principle and Evolving System Concept

Summary: Traces the transaction abstraction’s reciprocal evolution between formal theory and deployed systems, from classical data processing to human-in-the-loop, time-dependent applications. Highlights emerging semantics and system challenges that may ultimately outgrow the term “transaction.” (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8440
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.4430999e-05
Overall Rank: 8,363 | 42.63%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Henry F. Korth (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{korth_vldb95,
        title = {{The Double Life of the Transaction Abstraction: Fundamental Principle and Evolving System Concept}},
        author = {Korth, Henry F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        volume = {21},
        pages = {2},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,583	Disseminating Updates on Broadcast Disks	1996	VLDB	5.5914231e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 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
1,179	A Model of CAD Transactions	1985	VLDB	0.00011806468
4,476	ASSET: A System for Supporting Extended Transactions	1994	SIGMOD	6.6794902e-05

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