In this paper I will discusses reflective transaction processing, a new research area that I believe has its potential. I start with a motivating example, i.e., using reflection as a mechanism to address the heterogeneity issues in distributed transaction processing. Other usages of reflection in transaction processing will also be briefly mentioned. I will then explain what reflection is and d...

This handbook is a compendium of the popular performance and price/performance metrics for database systems and transaction processing systems. Each benchmark tries to answer the question: “What computer should I buy?” Clearly, the answer question is “The system that does the job with the lowest cost-of-ownership”. Cost-of-ownership includes project risks, programming costs, operations costs, h...

We propose a new service-oriented Grid Transaction Processing architecture called GridTP based on the OGSA platform and the X/Open DTP model. GridTP services provide a consistent and effective way of making existing, autonomously managed databases available within Grid environments. In the Data Virtualization Services layer, Grid applications, via the WSDL-style TX portType, delineate global tr...

Stream processing addresses the needs of real-time applications. Transaction processing addresses the coordination and safety of short atomic computations. Heretofore, these two modes of operation existed in separate, stove-piped systems. In this work, we attempt to fuse the two computational paradigms in a single system called S-Store. In this way, S-Store can simultaneously accommodate OLTP a...

As technological advances are made in software and hardware, the feasibility of accessing information “any time, anywhere” is becoming a reality. Furthermore, the diversity and amount of information available to a given user is increasing at a rapid rate. In a mobile computing environment, a potentially large number of users may simultaneously access the global data; therefore, there is a need ...

The concurrency control requirements for transaction processing in a multilevel secure file system are different from those in conventional transaction processing systems. In particular, there is the need to coordinate transactions at different security levels avoiding both potential timing covert channels and the starvation of transactions at higher security levels. Suppose a transaction at a ...

The Arjuna Transaction Service (ATS) began life in the mid 1980s as an academic project (called Arjuna) to examine the use of object-oriented techniques in the development of fault-tolerant systems [1]. It provides a set of tools for the construction of fault-tolerant distributed applications using (nested) transactions controlling operations on persistent objects. A version of the system writt...

To simplify the difficult task of writing fault-tolerant parallel software, we implemented extensions to the basic functionality of the LINDA or tuple-space programming model. Our approach implements a mechanism of transaction processing to ensure that tuples are properly handled in the event of a node or communications failure. If a process retrieving a tuple fails to complete processing or a ...