Transactional Information Systems
Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery

Gerhard Weikum (Author), Gottfried Vossen (Author)

9781558605084, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 30 May 2001

872 pages
23.4 x 18.6 x 4.3 cm, 1.64 kg

"This book is a major advance for transaction processing. It gives an in-depth presentation of both the theoretical and practical aspects of the field, and is the first to present our new understanding of multi-level (object model) transaction processing. It's likely to become the standard reference in our field for many years to come."—Jim Gray, Microsoft

Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at the role of transactional technology in today's economic and scientific endeavors, then delve into critical issues faced by all practitioners, presenting today's most effective techniques for controlling concurrent access by multiple clients, recovering from system failures, and coordinating distributed transactions.The authors emphasize formal models that are easily applied across fields, that promise to remain valid as current technologies evolve, and that lend themselves to generalization and extension in the development of new classes of network-centric, functionally rich applications. This book's purpose and achievement is the presentation of the foundations of transactional systems as well as the practical aspects of the field what will help you meet today's challenges.

PART ONE - BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATIONChapter 1 What Is It All About?Chapter 2 Computational ModelsPART TWO - CONCURRENCY CONTROLChapter 3 Concurrency Control: Notions of Correctness for the Page ModelChapter 4 Concurrency Control AlgorithmsChapter 5 Multiversion Concurrency ControlChapter 6 Concurrency Control on Objects: Notions of CorrectnessChapter 7 Concurrency Control Algorithms on ObjectsChapter 8 Concurrency Control on Relational DatabasesChapter 9 Concurrency Control on Search StructuresChapter 10 Implementation and Pragmatic IssuesPART THREE - RECOVERYChapter 11 Transaction Recovery Chapter 12 Crash Recovery: Notion of CorrectnessChapter 13 Page Model Crash Recovery AlgorithmsChapter 14 Object Model Crash RecoveryChapter 15 Special Issues of RecoveryChapter 16 Media RecoveryChapter 17 Application RecoveryPART FOUR - COORDINATION OF DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTIONSChapter 18 Distributed Concurrency ControlChapter 19 Distributed Transaction RecoveryPART FIVE - APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVESChapter 20 What Is Next?

Subject Areas: Database programming [UMT], Library, archive & information management [GLC]