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High Performance Transaction Systems (HPTS 1987)

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This paper argues that transaction processing adds relatively little overhead to applications that access shared abstract data objects. It also argues that transaction processing can be made easy to use for both users and implementors of shared objects. The implication is that transaction processing can be a very useful technique in a variety of application domains. To provide more evidence as to the utility of transaction systems, the paper briefly describes the Camelot Distributed Transaction Facility, which has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Camelot executes on a variety of uni- and multi-processors on top of the Unix-compatible, Mach operating system. The paper also describes Camelot's interfaces and contains preliminary performance information gathered on pre-alpha release versions of Camelot.

This work was supported by IBM, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA Order No. 4976, monitored by the Air Force Avionics Laboratory under Contract F33615-84-K-1520, Apple, and a fellowship from AT&T.

The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any of the sponsoring agencies or the United States government.

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    Alfred Z. Spector, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Dean S. Daniels, Richard Draves, Joshua J. Bloch, Dan Duchamp, Randy F. Pausch & Dean Thompson

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Spector, A.Z. et al. (1989). High performance distributed transaction processing in a general purpose computing environment. In: Gawlick, D., Haynie, M., Reuter, A. (eds) High Performance Transaction Systems. HPTS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 359. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51085-0_49

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