1.1 Transaction Model 1.2 Database Access Model 1.3 Computer System Model 2
STANDARD LOCKING AND ITS PERFORMANCE 2.1 Lock Conflicts and Deadlocks 2.2 A …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

DB2TM, IMS, and TandemTM systems. ARIES is applicable not only to database
management systems but also to persistent object-oriented languages, recoverable file …

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 …

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features---disk-resident
B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading---that …

Invented about 40 years ago and called ubiquitous less than 10 years later, B-tree indexes
have been used in a wide variety of computing systems from handheld devices to …

Abstract Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are a ubiquitous and critical component
of modern computing, and the result of decades of research and development in both …

Many popular database management systems implement a multiversion concurrency control
algorithm called snapshot isolation rather than providing full serializability based on locking …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Although there are many advanced and specialized texts and handbooks on algorithms,
until now there was no book that focused exclusively on the wide variety of data structures …