The Case for Determinism in Database Systems
Summary: Proposes deterministic concurrency control enforcing a predetermined serial order, enabling synchronization-free active replication and eliminating two-phase commit—even for distributed transactions. A simple deadlock-avoidance scheme yields strong availability and performance benefits. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alexander Thomson (Yale University)
- 2. Daniel J. Abadi (Yale University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{thomson_vldb10,
title = {{The Case for Determinism in Database Systems}},
author = {Thomson, Alexander and Abadi, Daniel J.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '10},
volume = {3},
number = {1},
pages = {70--80},
doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920853},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920853},
year = {2010}
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