Load Control for Locking: The 'Half-and-Half' Approach
Summary: Introduces 'Half-and-Half', a dynamic load-control mechanism for two-phase locking that monitors DBMS state and adapts the multiprogramming level to eliminate thrashing under high contention. Evaluation shows robust thrashing prevention across workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael J. Carey (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Sanjay Krishnamurthi (University of Wisconsin)
- 3. Miron Livny (University of Wisconsin)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{carey_pods90,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '90},
title = {{Load Control for Locking: The 'Half-and-Half' Approach}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/298514.298543},
doi = {10.1145/298514.298543},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Carey, Michael J. and Krishnamurthi, Sanjay and Livny, Miron},
year = {1990}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 781 | Self-tuning Database Technology and Information Services: from Wishful Thinking to Viable Engineering | 2002 | VLDB | 0.00014085674 |
| 4,241 | Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems | 1995 | VLDB | 6.8094303e-05 |
| 4,419 | Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems | 1997 | SIGMOD | 6.7136764e-05 |
| 5,810 | Performance Evaluation of an Adaptive and Robust Load Control Method for the Avoidance of Data-Contention Thrashing | 1992 | VLDB | 6.0787515e-05 |
| 6,477 | PLANET: Making Progress with Commit Processing in Unpredictable Environments | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.8682525e-05 |
| 8,587 | Using Versions in Update Transactions: Application to Integrity Checking | 1997 | VLDB | 5.4069724e-05 |
| 10,033 | Modeling Concurrency Control as a Learnable Function | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.173224e-05 |
| 13,081 | An Approach to Eliminate Transaction Blocking in Locking Protocols | 1992 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 135 | An Evaluation of Buffer Management Strategies for Relational Database Systems | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00030209257 |
| 260 | Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00023103999 |
| 2,911 | The Performance of Concurrency Control Algorithms for Database Management Systems | 1984 | VLDB | 7.9695999e-05 |
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