Contest of XML Lock Protocols

Summary: 11 XML lock protocols explored and implemented in a single XDBMS via meta-synchronization; enables benchmarking. Dedicated XML benchmark framework with read/write transactions and experiments identifies top protocols under identical conditions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9574
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2006
Pagerank: 5.5558475e-05
Overall Rank: 7,737 | 46.92%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Haustein (SAP)
2. Theo Härder (University of Kaiserslautern)
3. Konstantin Luttenberger (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering)

BibTeX Citation

@article{haustein_vldb06,
        title = {{Contest of XML Lock Protocols}},
        author = {Haustein, Michael and Härder, Theo and Luttenberger, Konstantin},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '06},
        volume = {32},
        pages = {1069--1080},
        year = {2006}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,870	Optimistic Concurrency Control by Melding Trees	2011	VLDB	6.4709622e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
719	ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels	2004	SIGMOD	0.00014637695
1,744	System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML	2005	SIGMOD	9.868841e-05
2,166	Precision Locks	1981	SIGMOD	9.0500644e-05

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