Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data

Summary: Proposes semantics-aware multi-copy replication that handles reads and updates via commutativity and transaction categorization. Demonstrates cheaper, correct replication techniques with correctness guarantees and clear gains over conventional methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he0fa883047f7f34f
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1988
Pagerank: 5.9034376e-05
Overall Rank: 6,050 | 59.33%
DOI: 10.1145/50202.50215

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Akhil Kumar (University of California Berkeley)
2. Michael Stonebraker (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kumar_sigmod88,
        title = {{Semantics Based Transaction Management Techniques for Replicated Data}},
        author = {Kumar, Akhil and Stonebraker, Michael},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '88},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/50202.50215},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/50202.50215},
        year = {1988}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,451	The Homeostasis Protocol: Avoiding Transaction Coordination Through Program Analysis	2015	SIGMOD	8.4467767e-05
13,381	High Throughput Escrow Algorithms for Replicated Databases (Extended Abstract)	1992	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,296	An Efficient, Fault-Tolerant Protocol For Replicated Data Management	1985	PODS	0.00011138662
3,176	Extendible Hashing for Concurrent Operations and Distributed Data	1983	PODS	7.5669629e-05
4,682	Concurrency on High-Traffic Data Elements	1982	PODS	6.4720546e-05
4,697	Updating Replicated Data During Communications Failures	1985	VLDB	6.4646083e-05

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