A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit.

Butler W. Lampson, David B. Lomet: A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit. VLDB 1993: 630-640

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/LampsonL93,
  author    = {Butler W. Lampson and
               David B. Lomet},
  editor    = {Rakesh Agrawal and
               Se{\'a}n Baker and
               David A. Bell},
  title     = {A New Presumed Commit Optimization for Two Phase Commit},
  booktitle = {19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               24-27, 1993, Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1993},
  isbn      = {1-55860-152-X},
  pages     = {630-640},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/LampsonL93.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/93},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Two phase commit (2PC) is used to coordinate the commitment of transactions in distributed systems. The standard 2PC optimization is the presumed abort variant, which uses fewer messages when transactions are aborted and allows the coordinator to forget about aborted transactions. The presumed commit variant of 2PC uses even fewer messages, but its coordinator must do additional logging. We describe a new form of presumed commit that reduces the number of log writeswhile preserving the reduction in messages, bringing both these costs below those of presumed abort. The penalty for this is the need to retain a small amountof crash related information forever.

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