In this paper we survey, consolidate, and present the state of the art in distributed database
concurrency control. The heart of our analysts is a decomposition of the concurrency control …

I am pleased to announce the free on-line availability of the book" Concurrency Control and
Recovery in Database Systems," by Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, and Nathan …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

Two related and fundamental problems in designing decentralized systems which support
an object model of computation are introduced, and proposed solution techniques are …

Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading
scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at …

Computer architectures are moving towards an era dominated by many-core machines with
dozens or even hundreds of cores on a single chip. This unprecedented level of on-chip …

Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications,
designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed …

Concurrency control for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) database management
systems (DBMSs) is a nasty game. Achieving higher performance on emerging many-core …

This paper introduces Beldi, a library and runtime system for writing and composing fault-
tolerant and transactional stateful serverless functions. Beldi runs on existing providers and …

Distributed systems are easier to build than ever with the emergence of new, data-centric
abstractions for storing and computing over massive datasets. However, similar abstractions …