On Correctness of Non-serializable Executions
Summary: Argues strict serializability is impractical for long-duration/distributed transactions and surveys alternatives—operation semantics, sagas, commutativity, partitioning—to raise concurrency. Develops formal models and verifiable conditions to deem non-serializable executions correct for distributed/interactive DBs. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Rajeev Rastogi (University of Texas)
- 2. Sharad Mehrotra (University of Texas)
- 3. Yuri Breitbart (University of Kentucky)
- 4. Henry F. Korth (Panasonic Technologies Inc.)
- 5. Avi Silberschatz (AT&T; University of Texas)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{rastogi_pods93,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '93},
title = {{On Correctness of Non-serializable Executions}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/153850.153859},
doi = {10.1145/153850.153859},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Rastogi, Rajeev and Mehrotra, Sharad and Breitbart, Yuri and Korth, Henry F. and Silberschatz, Avi},
year = {1993}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 12,961 | Exploiting Versions for Handling Updates in Broadcast Disks | 1999 | VLDB | 5.0723324e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | Sagas | 1987 | SIGMOD | 0.00038600275 |
| 3,795 | Extracting Concurrency from Objects: A Methodology | 1991 | SIGMOD | 7.1074024e-05 |
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