A Mean Value Performance Model for Locking in Databases: The Waiting Case
Summary: Mean-value analytic model extended from 'no-wait' (abort-on-conflict) to realistic waiting (only deadlocks abort), validated for uniform exclusive-lock workloads. Reductions for nonuniform access and shareable locks; counterintuitive finding that no-wait often equals or outperforms waiting in throughput. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Y. C. Tay (Harvard University; National University of Singapore)
- 2. R. Suri (Harvard University)
- 3. N. Goodman (Boston University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{tay_pods84,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '84},
title = {{A Mean Value Performance Model for Locking in Databases: The Waiting Case}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588011.588056},
doi = {10.1145/588011.588056},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Tay, Y. C. and Suri, R. and Goodman, N.},
year = {1984}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 268 | Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00022664149 |
| 782 | The Case for Determinism in Database Systems | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00014018588 |
| 1,940 | Performance and Resource Modeling in Highly-Concurrent OLTP Workloads | 2013 | SIGMOD | 9.3298436e-05 |
| 4,203 | Choice and Performance in Locking for Databases | 1984 | VLDB | 6.7338098e-05 |
| 6,331 | On Affinity Based Routing in Multi-System Data Sharing | 1986 | VLDB | 5.8103665e-05 |
| 6,865 | Performance Results on Multiversion Timestamp Concurrency Control with Predeclared Writesets | 1987 | PODS | 5.6582566e-05 |
| 13,519 | The Private Workspace Model Feasibility and Applications to 2PL Performance Improvements | 1985 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,435 | Queueing Network Models for Concurrent Transaction Processing in a Database System | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00010657876 |
| 1,719 | Concurrency In Database Systems - A Simulation Study | 1977 | SIGMOD | 9.7971882e-05 |
| 4,119 | A Simple Analytic Model For Performance Of Exclusive Locking In Database Systems | 1983 | PODS | 6.7927072e-05 |
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