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Open Nested Transaction Models

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Advanced transaction models; Extended transaction models

Definition

Open nested transactions are hierarchically structured transactions with relaxed ACID properties. Individual subtransactions may commit independently before the complete top level transaction commits. Therefore, conventional rollback is not possible and the effects of a commited subtransaction have to be compensated if the top level transaction aborts. Depending on the particular open nested transaction model, subtransactions may be vital or non-vital and may have alternative or contingency subtransactions. Open nested transaction models are characterized through relaxed visibility rules, abort and commit dependencies.

Historical Background

Open nested transaction models evolved in the 1980s in response to two major sets of requirements: the needs of federated multidatabase systems integrating autonomous legacy database systems, and the demands of long running, cooperative processes for higher levels of...

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  1. Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

    Alejandro Buchmann

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

    Ling Liu

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

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 210 S. Bouquet Street, 15260, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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Buchmann, A. (2016). Open Nested Transaction Models. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_717-2

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