Repeating History Beyond ARIES

Summary: ARIES origins, impact on industry and research, and the ARIES family of concurrency control and recovery methods. Argues that repeating history applies to internet-scale transaction management, forecasting future emphasis on performance, availability, and reliability. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3aed07d51ebb0a9b
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
Pagerank: 5.1644268e-05
Overall Rank: 9,532 | 35.92%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. C. Mohan (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{mohan_vldb99,
        title = {{Repeating History Beyond ARIES}},
        author = {Mohan, C.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        year = {1999}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,848	Rethinking Logging, Checkpoints, and Recovery for High-Performance Storage Engines	2020	SIGMOD	6.3818116e-05
8,341	DecLog: Decentralized Logging in Non-Volatile Memory for Time Series Database Systems	2024	VLDB	5.3517356e-05
13,138	An Efficient Method for Performing Record Deletions and Updates Using Index Scans	2002	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,186	Evolution of Groupware for Business Applications: A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes	2000	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 24 of 24 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
221	ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes	1990	VLDB	0.00024274803
302	Shoring Up Persistent Applications	1994	SIGMOD	0.0002167061
951	Algorithms for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without Quiescing Updates	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012893557
983	ARIES/IM: An Efficient and High Concurrency Index Management Method Using Write-Ahead Logging	1992	SIGMOD	0.00012706526
1,479	Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment	1991	VLDB	0.00010543236
2,052	Efficient and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions	1992	SIGMOD	9.1199209e-05
2,263	Concurrency and Recovery in Generalized Search Trees	1997	SIGMOD	8.7304715e-05
2,633	Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach	1984	VLDB	8.1995095e-05
3,014	An Efficient and Flexible Method for Archiving a Data Base	1993	SIGMOD	7.7540513e-05
3,170	Access Method Concurrency with Recovery	1992	SIGMOD	7.5691807e-05
3,760	MLR: A Recovery Method for Multi-level Systems	1992	SIGMOD	7.0426689e-05
3,868	ARIES/CSA: A Method for Database Recovery in Client-Server Architectures	1994	SIGMOD	6.9570919e-05
4,092	An Efficient Scheme for Providing High Availability	1992	SIGMOD	6.8123919e-05
4,377	IBM's Relational DBMS Products: Features and Technologies	1993	SIGMOD	6.6282737e-05
4,967	ARIES/NT: A Recovery Method Based on Write-Ahead Logging for Nested Transactions	1989	VLDB	6.3352338e-05
5,208	Crash Recovery in Client-Server EXODUS	1992	SIGMOD	6.2265124e-05
5,221	Redo Recovery after System Crashes	1995	VLDB	6.2214691e-05
5,237	Commit LSN: A Novel and Simple Method for Reducing Locking and Latching in Transaction Processing Systems	1990	VLDB	6.2170143e-05
5,243	LOG Write-Ahead Protocols and IMS/VS Logging	1983	PODS	6.2141493e-05
5,486	Analysis of Recovery in a Database System Using a Write-Ahead Log Protocol	1992	SIGMOD	6.1097144e-05
5,503	A Cost-Effective Method for Providing Improved Data Availability During DBMS Restart Recovery After a Failure	1993	VLDB	6.1023203e-05
6,735	Concepts for Transaction Recovery in Nested Transactions	1987	SIGMOD	5.6932756e-05
6,810	Applying Database Technology in the ADSM Mass Storage System	1995	VLDB	5.6757135e-05
7,944	A Database Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes	1999	SIGMOD	5.4213257e-05

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