Repeating History Beyond ARIES

Summary: ARIES origins, impact on industry and research, and the ARIES family of concurrency control and recovery methods. Argues that repeating history applies to internet-scale transaction management, forecasting future emphasis on performance, availability, and reliability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8743
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.2827941e-05
Overall Rank: 9,357 | 35.81%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. C. Mohan (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mohan_vldb99,
        title = {{Repeating History Beyond ARIES}},
        author = {Mohan, C.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        year = {1999}
}

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Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,763	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.519206e-05
8,167	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	5.4745703e-05
12,848	An Efficient Method for Performing Record Deletions and Updates Using Index Scans	2002	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,896	Evolution of Groupware for Business Applications: A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes	2000	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 24 of 24 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
214	ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes	1990	VLDB	0.00024680756
299	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.00022084669
924	Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013185068
958	ARIES/IM: An Efficient and High Concurrency Index Management Method Using Write-Ahead Logging	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012956148
1,445	Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment	1991	VLDB	0.00010769388
2,081	Efficient and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions	1992	SIGMOD	9.2021976e-05
2,227	Concurrency and Recovery in Generalized Search Trees	1997	SIGMOD	8.9111106e-05
2,586	Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach	1984	VLDB	8.3771396e-05
2,965	An Efficient and Flexible Method for Archiving a Data Base	1993	SIGMOD	7.9154798e-05
3,114	Access Method Concurrency with Recovery	1992	SIGMOD	7.7405805e-05
3,680	MLR: A Recovery Method for Multi-level Systems	1992	SIGMOD	7.2042508e-05
3,805	ARIES/CSA: A Method for Database Recovery in Client-Server Architectures	1994	SIGMOD	7.1109234e-05
3,999	An Efficient Scheme for Providing High Availability	1992	SIGMOD	6.9673776e-05
4,286	IBM's Relational DBMS Products: Features and Technologies	1993	SIGMOD	6.780371e-05
4,848	ARIES/NT: A Recovery Method Based on Write-Ahead Logging for Nested Transactions	1989	VLDB	6.4804854e-05
5,085	Crash Recovery in Client-Server EXODUS	1992	SIGMOD	6.3689981e-05
5,104	Redo Recovery after System Crashes	1995	VLDB	6.3641018e-05
5,119	Commit LSN: A Novel and Simple Method for Reducing Locking and Latching in Transaction Processing Systems	1990	VLDB	6.3577506e-05
5,126	LOG Write-Ahead Protocols and IMS/VS Logging	1983	PODS	6.3564455e-05
5,373	Analysis of Recovery in a Database System Using a Write-Ahead Log Protocol	1992	SIGMOD	6.2425455e-05
5,375	A Cost-Effective Method for Providing Improved Data Availability During DBMS Restart Recovery After a Failure	1993	VLDB	6.2416129e-05
6,606	Concepts for Transaction Recovery in Nested Transactions	1987	SIGMOD	5.8237806e-05
6,675	Applying Database Technology in the ADSM Mass Storage System	1995	VLDB	5.8059504e-05
7,779	A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes	1999	SIGMOD	5.5457351e-05

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