Is Transactional Memory an Oxymoron?

Summary: Taxonomy of transactional memory implementations (software, hardware, hybrids) with Wisconsin LogTM; examines write buffering. TM vs database transactions (concurrency vs durability; memory–disk gap) and cross-fertilization opportunities for data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9841
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,766 | 5.56%
DOI: 10.14778/1453856.1453858

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1. Mark D. Hill (University of Wisconsin)

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@article{hill_vldb08,
        title = {{Is Transactional Memory an Oxymoron?}},
        author = {Hill, Mark D.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1},
        doi = {10.14778/1453856.1453858},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1453856.1453858},
        year = {2008}
}

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