Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance, and Analysis / Edition 1

by Alexander Thomasian

Overview

Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance and Analysis is a review of developments in concurrency control methods for centralized database systems, with a quick digression into distributed databases and multicomputers, the emphasis being on performance.
The main goals of Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance and Analysis are to succinctly specify various concurrency control methods; to describe models for evaluating the relative performance of concurrency control methods; to point out problem areas in earlier performance analyses; to introduce queuing network models to evaluate the baseline performance of transaction processing systems; to provide insights into the relative performance of transaction processing systems; to illustrate the application of basic analytic methods to the performance analysis of various concurrency control methods; to review transaction models which are intended to relieve the effect of lock contention; to provide guidelines for improving the performance of transaction processing systems due to concurrency control; and to point out areas for further investigation.
This monograph should be of direct interest to computer scientists doing research on concurrency control methods for high performance transaction processing systems, designers of such systems, and professionals concerned with improving (tuning) the performance of transaction processing systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792397410
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	07/31/1996
Series:	Advances in Database Systems , #1
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1: Introduction.- 2: Modeling and Analysis of Transaction Processing Systems.- 3: Standard Locking and Its Performance.- 4: Restart-Oriented Locking Methods.- 5: Two-Phase Processing Methods.- 6: Distributed Databases.- 7: Conclusions.- Appendix: Notation for Important Parameters.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Reviews the several methods used to ensure correctness when a shared database is updated by multiple transactions concurrently, focusing mostly on centralized databases but with quick forays into distributed databases and multi-computers. Identifies the strengths and weaknesses of each method and model, compares them for a number of criteria, and suggests improvements and directions for further research. Assumes the reader to be familiar with basic concepts in database management systems and concurrency control, but provides the necessary background in performance analysis, especially queueing theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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