Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager.

Akhil Kumar, Michael Stonebraker: Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager. VLDB 1987: 473-481

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  author    = {Akhil Kumar and
               Michael Stonebraker},
  editor    = {Peter M. Stocker and
               William Kent and
               Peter Hammersley},
  title     = {Performance Evaluation of an Operating System Transaction Manager},
  booktitle = {VLDB'87, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 1-4, 1987, Brighton, England},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1987},
  isbn      = {0-934613-46-X},
  pages     = {473-481},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/KumarS87.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/87},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

A conventional transaction manager implemented by a database management system (DBMS) is compared against one implemented within an operating system (OS) in a variety of simulated situations. Models of concurrency control and crash recovery were constructed for both environments, and the results of a collection of experiments are presented in this paper. The results indicate that an OS transaction manager incurs a severe performance disadvantage and appears to be feasible only in special circumstances.

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