The Principle of Commitment Ordering, or Guaranteeing Serializability in a Heterogeneous Environment of Multiple Autonomous Resource Managers Using Atomic Commitment

Summary: Introduces Commitment Ordering (CO) to achieve global serializability across autonomous RMs, relying only on atomic-commitment messages. CO is a necessary condition for global serializability, generalizes S-S2PL, enabling deadlock-free, optimistic CC. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd5cd8b11d0476e14
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 6.0292355e-05
Overall Rank: 5,706 | 61.64%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Yoav Raz (Digital Equipment Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@article{raz_vldb92,
        title = {{The Principle of Commitment Ordering, or Guaranteeing Serializability in a Heterogeneous Environment of Multiple Autonomous Resource Managers Using Atomic Commitment}},
        author = {Raz, Yoav},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        pages = {292--301},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,261	Scaling Multicore Databases via Constrained Parallel Execution	2016	SIGMOD	7.4835376e-05
6,501	Bringing Modular Concurrency Control to the Next Level	2017	SIGMOD	5.7645258e-05
6,835	Skeena: Efficient and Consistent Cross-Engine Transactions	2022	SIGMOD	5.6684174e-05
10,118	Extended Commitment Ordering or Guaranteeing Global Serializability by Applying Commitment Order Selectively to Global Transactions	1993	PODS	5.0789354e-05
11,317	Sonata: Multi-Database Transactions Made Fast and Serializable	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,242	Correctness and Parallelism in Composite Systems	1997	PODS	4.9793485e-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
4,017	A Knowledge Theoretic Analysis of Atomic Commitment Protocols (Preliminary Report)	1987	PODS	6.8526005e-05
4,396	Reliable Transaction Management in a Multidatabase System	1990	SIGMOD	6.6160592e-05
10,118	Extended Commitment Ordering or Guaranteeing Global Serializability by Applying Commitment Order Selectively to Global Transactions	1993	PODS	5.0789354e-05

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