Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures

by Sushil Jajodia (Editor), Larry Kerschberg (Editor)

Overview

Motivation Modem enterprises rely on database management systems (DBMS) to collect, store and manage corporate data, which is considered a strategic corporate re­ source. Recently, with the proliferation of personal computers and departmen­ tal computing, the trend has been towards the decentralization and distribution of the computing infrastructure, with autonomy and responsibility for data now residing at the departmental and workgroup level of the organization. Users want their data delivered to their desktops, allowing them to incor­ porate data into their personal databases, spreadsheets, word processing doc­ uments, and most importantly, into their daily tasks and activities. They want to be able to share their information while retaining control over its access and distribution. There are also pressures from corporate leaders who wish to use information technology as a strategic resource in offering specialized value-added services to customers. Database technology is being used to manage the data associated with corporate processes and activities. Increasingly, the data being managed are not simply formatted tables in relational databases, but all types of ob­ jects, including unstructured text, images, audio, and video. Thus, the database management providers are being asked to extend the capabilities of DBMS to include object-relational models as well as full object-oriented database management systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792398806
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	08/31/1997
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	381
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Dr. Sushil Jajodia is Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Information and Software Engineering, and Director of the Center for Secure Information Systems at the George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Table of Contents

1 Transactions in Transactional Workflows.- 2 WFMS: The Next Generation of Distributed Processing Tools.- 3 The Reflective Transaction Framework.- 4 Flexible Commit Prools for Advanced Transaction Processing.- 5 ConTracts Revisited.- 6 Semantic-Based Decomposition of Transactions.- 7 Customizable Concurrency Control for Persistent Java.- 8 Toward Formalizing Recovery of (Advanced) Transactions.- 9 Transaction Optimization Techniques.- 10 An Extensible Approach To Realizing Advanced Transaction Models.- 11 Inter-and Intra-transaction Parallelism for Combined OLTP/OLAP Workloads.- 12 Towards Distributed Real-Time Concurrency and Coordination Control.- 13 Transaction Processing in Broadcast Disk Environments.- References.- Contributing Authors.

Editorial Reviews

Surveys the developments and thinking about new models for moving information around and between databases required by the decentralization and distribution of information systems, particularly in commercial contexts. Discusses workflow transactions, tool-kit approaches, long transactions and semantics, concurrency control and recovery, transaction optimization, the event-condition-action approach, on-line transaction and analytical processing, real-time data management, and mobile computing. Of interest to student and practicing computer scientists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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