Principles of Transaction Processing / Edition 2

by Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer

Overview

Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provides detailed discussions of the internal workings of transaction processing systems, and it discusses how these systems work and how best to utilize them. It covers the architecture of Web Application Servers and transactional communication paradigms.The book is divided into 11 chapters, which cover the following: Overview of transaction processing application and system structureSoftware abstractions found in transaction processing systemsArchitecture of multitier applications and the functions of transactional middleware and database serversQueued transaction processing and its internals, with IBM's Websphere MQ and Oracle's Stream AQ as examplesBusiness process management and its mechanismsDescription of the two-phase locking function, B-tree locking and multigranularity locking used in SQL database systems and nested transaction lockingSystem recovery and its failuresTwo-phase commit protocolComparison between the tradeoffs of replicating servers versus replication resourcesTransactional middleware products and standardsFuture trends, such as cloud computing platforms, composing scalable systems using distributed computing components, the use of flash storage to replace disks and data streams from sensor devices as a source of transaction requests. The text meets the needs of systems professionals, such as IT application programmers who construct TP applications, application analysts, and product developers. The book will also be invaluable to students and novices in application programming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558606234
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/09/2009
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Corporation and author of over 150 technical articles on database and transaction systems. He was previously lead architect for Digital Equipment Corporation’s transaction processing products group and was a professor at Harvard University. He is an ACM Fellow and member of the National Academy of Engineering.

is an independent consultant working in the CTO Office at Progress Software. He was previously CTO of IONA Technologies and a TP Architect at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has contributed to multiple enterprise software products and standards.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Transaction Processing Abstractions3: TP Application Architecture4: Queued Transaction Processing5: Business Process Management6: High Availability7: Transaction Processing Products8: Writing TP Applications9: Locking10: Database System Recovery11: Two-Phase Commit12: Replication13: ConclusionAppendix I: Course ProjectsAppendix II: SQL