Everything about Transaction processing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Transaction processingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: X-Shard: Optimistic Cross-Shard Transaction Processing for Sharding-Based BlockchainsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Accounting information systemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Limitations of concurrency in transaction processingCited 101 times
5. Go sideways: ACIDA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Concurrency controlA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Limitations of concurrency in transaction processing

  Peter Franaszek, John T. Robinson · 1985 · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 101 citations

• Transaction processing monitors

  Philip A. Bernstein · 1990 · Communications of the ACM · 45 citations

• Transaction processing in mobile, heterogeneous database systems

  J.B. Lim, A.R. Hurson · 2002 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 29 citations

• Efficient Distributed Transaction Processing in Heterogeneous Networks

  Qian Zhang, Jingyao Li, Hongyao Zhao · 2023 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 27 citations

• Databases and transaction processing

  Philip M. Lewis, Arthur Bernstein, Michael Kifer · 2002 · ACM SIGMOD Record · 22 citations

• Efficient Cross-Chain Transaction Processing on Blockchains

  Wenqi Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Guoren Wang · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 19 citations

• Optimistic Transaction Processing in Deterministic Database

  Zhi-Yuan Dong, Chu-Zhe Tang, Jia-Chen Wang · 2020 · Journal of Computer Science and Technology · 16 citations

• Eliminating unscalable communication in transaction processing

  Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamaki · 2013 · The VLDB Journal · 13 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• X-Shard: Optimistic Cross-Shard Transaction Processing for Sharding-Based Blockchains

  Jie Xu, Yulong Ming, Zihan Wu · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 66 citations

• Is My Transaction Done Yet? An Empirical Study of Transaction Processing Times in the Ethereum Blockchain Platform

  Michael Pacheco, Gustavo Oliva, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur · 2023 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 45 citations

• A Reputation-Based Mechanism for Transaction Processing in Blockchain Systems

  Jiarui Zhang, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 29 citations

• FLUID: Towards Efficient Continuous Transaction Processing in DAG-Based Blockchains

  Junpei Ni, Jiang Xiao, Shijie Zhang · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 28 citations

• Smart Contract Design Pattern for Processing Logically Coherent Transaction Types

  Tomasz Górski · 2024 · Applied Sciences · 21 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Accounting information systemsJames L. Boockholdt · 1991
• Principles of transaction processingPhilip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer · 1997
• Building accounting systemsJames T. Perry · 1995
• Distributed transaction processingPrentice-Hall, inc., X Open · 1996
• Atomic transactionsNancy A. Lynch, Michael L. Merritt · 1993
• Video segmentation and its applicationsKing Ngi Ngan · 2011
• Multilevel secure transaction processingVijay Atluri, Vijay Atluri · 1999
• Ontology-based query processing for global information systemsEduardo Mena, Arantza Illarramendi · 2001

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