In web service environments, long transactions need to lock resources – often database services – for a long time during their long execution duration. This would bring down the performance of transaction processing systems. The transaction compensation is a feasible solution through allowing sub-transactions to independently commit, however, it is not able to speed up the transaction processin...

Online transaction processing applications are playing an increasingly important role in corporate activities. While transaction processing applications can be characterized as a large number of users concurrently accessing and updating very large databases, there is a fundamental set of generic user requirements which such applications must satisfy to be successful. This paper shows that with ...

Blockchain has received great attention in academia and industry due to its decentralization immutability. From the perspective of transaction processing, blockchain is a distributed shared ledger database with characteristics decentralization, traceability, transparency. These features ensure security blockchain’s reliability. However, because network requires complex consensus verification be...

We study the feasibility of autonomous transaction execution in systems with asynchronous transaction processing based on epsilon serializability (ESR). The abstract correctness criteria deened by ESR are implemented by techniques such as asynchronous divergence control and asynchronous consistency restoration. Concrete application examples in a distributed environment, such as banking, illustr...

Ever-increasing demands for high transaction rates, limitations of high-end processors, high availability, and modular growth considerations are all driving forces toward distributed architectures for transaction processing. However, a prerequisite to taking advantage of the capacity of a distributed transaction processing system is an effective strategy for workload allocation. The distributio...

Three major technological directions in computer technology are transaction processing, object orientation, and microkernel operating systems. The KeyKOS operating system and the KeyTXF transaction processing system combine all three of these technologies. The design of KeyKOS directly provides operating system level objects on a microkernel base. In order to maintain the integrity of these obj...