Principles of transaction processing

MaRDI QIDQ2785807zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Philip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer

Publication date 26 February 1997

zbMATH Keywords

computer system organizationtransaction processing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science (68-01) General theory of computer systems (68M01)

Review text

The book describes the notion of transaction processing in a very accessible way. A transaction processing system is a possibly distributed server to which requests can be sent to carry out certain tasks (e.g. account managing at a bank). First this book addresses several ways to send the requests (e.g. RPC, queues). Then it addresses ways to guarantee that even in a distributed setting the handling of requests appears serializable. The primary way for doing so is the two phase commit protocol. Finally, the book deals with ways to increase availability of the system, to recover from crashes and to handle multiple copies of some data element. Throughout the book there are many examples of actual transaction processing systems.

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