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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
0.00017407133
Overall Rank
493 | 96.69%
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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1,270 Using Paxos to Build a Scalable, Consistent, and Highly Available Datastore 2011 VLDB 0.00011257324
2,708 An Integrated Approach to Recovery and High Availability in an Updatable, Distributed Data Warehouse 2006 VLDB 8.1067346e-05
3,114 Epidemic Algorithms in Replicated Databases (Extended Abstract) 1997 PODS 7.6349852e-05
3,885 A Recovery Algorithm for a Distributed Database System 1983 PODS 6.9466549e-05
3,996 Evaluation of Remote Backup Algorithms for Transaction Processing Systems 1992 SIGMOD 6.8656996e-05
4,333 Causal Consistency and Latency Optimality: Friend or Foe? 2018 VLDB 6.6587455e-05
4,427 Analysis of Distributed Commit Protocols 1982 SIGMOD 6.6038663e-05
4,505 Revisiting Commit Processing in Distributed Database Systems 1997 SIGMOD 6.5727503e-05
5,322 Unifying Consensus and Atomic Commitment for Effective Cloud Data Management 2019 VLDB 6.1806962e-05
5,412 An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management 1991 SIGMOD 6.1403428e-05
5,648 Lineage-driven Fault Injection 2015 SIGMOD 6.0523358e-05
5,805 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9886376e-05
6,693 Optimal Termination Protocols for Network Partitioning 1983 PODS 5.7070603e-05
7,193 Two Epoch Algorithms for Disaster Recovery 1990 VLDB 5.5900877e-05
7,680 A Fault-Tolerant Commit Protocol for Replicated Databases 1992 PODS 5.4772833e-05
7,686 On The Complexity Of Commit Protocols 1985 PODS 5.4772833e-05
7,739 How Fast can a Distributed Transaction Commit? 2017 PODS 5.4621684e-05
7,741 Lotus: Scalable Multi-Partition Transactions on Single-Threaded Partitioned Databases 2022 VLDB 5.4614829e-05
8,084 ESDB: Processing Extremely Skewed Workloads in Real-time 2022 SIGMOD 5.3942942e-05
8,572 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.3126816e-05
8,613 Chemistry behind Agreement 2023 CIDR 5.3024208e-05
9,913 Fast Commitment for Geo-Distributed Transactions via Decentralized Co-coordinators 2024 VLDB 5.1103839e-05
10,259 From Scale-Up to Scale-Out: PolarDB’s Journey to Achieving 2 Billion tpmC 2025 VLDB 5.050482e-05
10,528 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
13,324 A Transaction Replication Scheme for a Replicated Database with Node Autonomy 1994 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
13,449 Commitment In A Partitioned Distributed Database 1988 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
13,464 Transaction Commitment At Minimal Communication Cost 1987 PODS 4.9793485e-05
13,526 Simplifying Distributed Database Systems Design by Using a Broadcast Network 1984 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
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