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Concurrency control technique for databases

Commitment ordering (CO) is a class of interoperable serializability techniques in concurrency control of databases, transaction processing, and related applications. It allows optimistic (non-blocking) implementations. With the proliferation of multi-core processors, CO has also been increasingly utilized in concurrent programming, transactional memory, and software transactional memory (STM) to achieve serializability optimistically. CO is also the name of the resulting transaction schedule (history) property, defined in 1988 with the name dynamic atomicity. In a CO compliant schedule, the chronological order of commitment events of transactions is compatible with the precedence order of the respective transactions. CO is a broad special case of conflict serializability and effective means to achieve global serializability across any collection of database systems that possibly use different concurrency control mechanisms. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Commitment orderingA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: ZkDelay Mitigating Transaction-Ordering Dependence Using Commitment Schemes and Verifiable Delay Functions in Smart ContractsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Public order bill 1986The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: ON THE CAUSAL ORDERING OF JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT.Cited 371 times
  5. Go sideways: Concurrency controlA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Global serializabilityA closely related topic

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