VODAK open nested transactions—visualizing database internals

  • Authors:
  • Peter Muth;Thomas C. Rakow

  • Affiliations:
  • GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), D-W61OO Darmstadt, Germany;GMD - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI), D-W61OO Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

VODAK is a prototype of an object-oriented, distributed database system developed during the past five years at the Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute (IPSI). The aim of demonstrating VODAK Open Nested Transactions is to provide insights into internals of database systems that are usually hidden from application programmers and users. By utilizing semantics of methods, VODAK Open Nested Transactions increase the degree of parallelism between concurrent transactions compared to conventional transaction management schemes. Demonstrating the difference in parallelism provides users with a “feeling” for internal database mechanisms, application programmers with information about the impact of transaction management on performance, and system developers with ideas how to improve their systems with respect to transaction management.