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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.
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Paper ID
h0b48baa0714cf571
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1981
Pagerank
0.00017398935
Overall Rank
493 | 96.69%
DOI
10.1145/582318.582339
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@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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