Compensation-Aware Data Types in RDBMS

Summary: Compensation-aware data types enable long-running, resumable transactions to perform shared updates under semantic locks. Domain-specific update semantics attached to standard SQL types guarantee undoability and compatibility with concurrent uncommitted activity, avoiding cascading aborts; demonstrated in Oracle RDBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0219cd246917f2a8
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.3881127e-05
Overall Rank: 8,155 | 45.18%
DOI: 10.1145/1559845.1559950

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Aravind Yalamanchi (Oracle)
2. Dieter Gawlick (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yalamanchi_sigmod09,
        title = {{Compensation-Aware Data Types in RDBMS}},
        author = {Yalamanchi, Aravind and Gawlick, Dieter},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559950},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559950},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,447	Consistency Rationing in the Cloud: Pay only when it matters	2009	VLDB	0.00010627871

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
66	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038047495
2,564	ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior	1990	SIGMOD	8.2927351e-05
2,896	A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions	1990	VLDB	7.8921728e-05
6,603	A Practical and Modular Method to Implement Extended Transaction Models	1995	VLDB	5.7395671e-05

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