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Nonblocking Commit Protocols

Summary: Nonblocking commit protocols that allow ongoing processing during site failures. Establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for nonblocking behavior and a design method; presents central-site and decentralized nonblocking protocols. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h0b48baa0714cf571
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1981
Pagerank
0.0001734409
Overall Rank
497 | 96.68%
DOI
10.1145/582318.582339

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{skeen_sigmod81,
        title = {{NONBLOCKING COMMIT PROTOCOLS}},
        author = {Skeen, Dale},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '81},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582318.582339},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582318.582339},
        year = {1981}
}

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1,273 Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore 2011 VLDB 0.00011224986
2,715 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.0838677e-05
3,124 Epidemic Algorithms in Replicated Databases (Extended Abstract) 1997 PODS 7.6069384e-05
3,896 A Recovery Algorithm for a Distributed Database System 1983 PODS 6.9204077e-05
4,002 Evaluation of Remote Backup Algorithms for Transaction Processing Systems 1992 SIGMOD 6.8466648e-05
4,352 Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe? 2018 VLDB 6.6337597e-05
4,449 Analysis of Distributed Commit Protocols 1982 SIGMOD 6.5789163e-05
4,517 Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems 1997 SIGMOD 6.5522376e-05
5,342 Unifying Consensus and Atomic Commitment for Effective Cloud Data Management 2019 VLDB 6.1590212e-05
5,433 An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management 1991 SIGMOD 6.1171479e-05
5,662 Lineage-driven Fault Injection 2015 SIGMOD 6.0298936e-05
5,821 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9660099e-05
6,710 Optimal Termination Protocols for Network Partitioning 1983 PODS 5.6855147e-05
7,214 Two Epoch Algorithms for Disaster Recovery 1990 VLDB 5.5689659e-05
7,699 A Fault-Tolerant Commit Protocol for Replicated Databases 1992 PODS 5.4565877e-05
7,705 On The Complexity Of Commit Protocols 1985 PODS 5.4565877e-05
7,757 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.4420443e-05
7,760 Lotus: Scalable Multi-Partition Transactions on Single-Threaded Partitioned Databases 2022 VLDB 5.440847e-05
8,109 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 5.3739121e-05
8,597 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.2926286e-05
8,642 Chemistry behind Agreement 2023 CIDR 5.2823858e-05
9,955 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.0910746e-05
10,293 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.031399e-05
10,605 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,371 A Transaction Replication Scheme for a Replicated Database with Node Autonomy 1994 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
13,496 Commitment In A Partitioned Distributed Database 1988 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,511 Transaction Commitment At Minimal Communication Cost 1987 PODS 4.9605343e-05
13,573 Simplifying Distributed Database Systems Design by Using a Broadcast Network 1984 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
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