A Sophisticate's Introduction to Distributed Database Concurrency Control
Summary: Presents a compositional framework that decomposes distributed concurrency control into a few subproblems with known solutions, unified by serializability theory. Shows how published and novel algorithms emerge by recombining these building blocks. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Philip A. Bernstein (Harvard University)
- 2. Nathan Goodman (Harvard University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{bernstein_vldb82,
title = {{A Sophisticate's Introduction to Distributed Database Concurrency Control}},
author = {Bernstein, Philip A. and Goodman, Nathan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '82},
year = {1982}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 270 | Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00022604714 |
| 937 | A Modeling Study of the TPC-C Benchmark | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.00012958462 |
| 3,896 | A Recovery Algorithm for a Distributed Database System | 1983 | PODS | 6.9204077e-05 |
| 4,280 | An Abstract Model of Database Concurrency Control Algorithms | 1983 | SIGMOD | 6.6724964e-05 |
| 5,722 | Granularity Hierarchies in Concurrency Control | 1983 | PODS | 5.9996415e-05 |
| 7,964 | Deleting Completed Transactions (Extended Abstract) | 1986 | PODS | 5.4008046e-05 |
| 13,571 | Towards A Theory Of Online Schedulers | 1984 | PODS | 4.9605343e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 417 | Distributed Database Concurrency Controls Using Before-Values | 1981 | SIGMOD | 0.00018599136 |
| 531 | On Concurrency Control by Multiple Versions | 1982 | PODS | 0.00016817673 |
| 2,363 | A Locking Protocol For Resource Coordination In Distributed Databases | 1978 | SIGMOD | 8.5599585e-05 |
| 4,920 | Is Distributed Locking Harder? | 1982 | PODS | 6.344333e-05 |
| 6,582 | Performance Evaluation of a Two-Phase Commit Based Protocol for Distributed Databases | 1982 | PODS | 5.7242663e-05 |
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