Context-Based Synchronization: An Approach beyond Semantics for Concurrency Control

Summary: Context-based synchronization: use operation/execution context to relax static conflict models and enable more concurrency while preserving serializability and hybrid atomicity. Builds on HW (commit-time per-object timestamps) to let some noncommutative ops run concurrently when contexts differ, reducing spurious conflicts. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hb11162062b128577
Venue: PODS
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 4.9769913e-05
Overall Rank: 13,347 | 10.30%
DOI: 10.1145/153850.153922

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Authors

1. Man Hon Wong (University of California Santa Barbara)
2. Divyakant Agrawal (University of California Santa Barbara)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wong_pods93,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '93},
        title = {{Context-Based Synchronization: An Approach beyond Semantics for Concurrency Control}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/153850.153922},
        doi = {10.1145/153850.153922},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Wong, Man Hon and Agrawal, Divyakant},
        year = {1993}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,271	Recovery for Transaction Failures in Object-Based Databases	1996	PODS	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
528	On Concurrency Control by Multiple Versions	1982	PODS	0.00016867858
3,591	The Impact of Recovery on Concurrency Control	1989	PODS	7.1827724e-05
3,853	Extracting Concurrency from Objects: A Methodology	1991	SIGMOD	6.9738095e-05

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