Life Beyond Distributed Transactions

Life beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate's Opinion

Many decades of work have been invested in the area of distributed transactions including protocols such as 2PC, Paxos, and various approaches to quorum. These protocols provide the application programmer a façade of global serializability. Personally, I have invested a nontrivial portion of my career as a strong advocate for the implementation and use of platforms providing guarantees of globa...

Distributed Commerce Transactions

In situations where self-interested agents are interacting in an environment of distrust, commercial exchanges may be blocked due to a lack of trust. We propose a fully distributed algorithm that each agent may run to provide guarantees about the outcomes of such exchanges. The algorithm is shown in operation on two examples, one feasible and one not.

Processes + Transactions = Distributed Applications

1 Distributed Transactions in Java

1. Introduction The Web frequently suffers from failures which can affect both the performance and consistency of applications running over it. For example, if a user purchases a cookie (a token) granting access to a newspaper site, it is important that the cookie is delivered and stored if the user's account is debited; a failure could prevent either from occurring, and leave the system in an ...

Management of Large Distributed Transactions

In this paper we focus on scalability issues of distributed transaction management, i.e., transaction enlistment and commitment processing. There has not been much research on these issues though, mainly because it is widely believed that transactions should be kept small and should involve as few sites as possible. However we think it is now time to face these issues, given, for instance, that...