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Distributed Transaction Management

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Transaction management in distributed database systems

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Distributed transaction management deals with the problems of always providing a consistent distributed database in the presence of a large number of transactions (local and global) and failures (communication link and/or site failures). This is accomplished through (i) distributed commit protocols that guarantee atomicity property; (ii) distributed concurrency control techniques to ensure consistency and isolation properties; and (iii) distributed recovery methods to preserve consistency and durability when failures occur.

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A transaction is a sequence of actions on a database that forms a basic unit of reliable and consistent computing, and satisfies the ACID property. In a distributed database system (DDBS), transactions may be local or global. In local transactions, the actions access and update data in a single site only, and hence it is straightforward to ensure the ACID property....

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  1. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Wee Hyong Tok

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Kian-Lee Tan

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Tok, W.H. (2018). Distributed Transaction Management. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_710

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