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This page is devoted to tracking information on
the ARIES (Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics) family of
locking, logging and recovery algorithms for persistent data management. I have included information on the books and
university courses which cover ARIES with links to course materials, teachers
and authors. The impact of ARIES on products,
prototypes and researchers is also outlined. A listing of our papers and patents
on ARIES is
also included.
The impact of ARIES on the research and the
commercial worlds was recognized with the "10
Year Best Impact Paper Award" at VLDB99. The birth and evolution of
ARIES is described in my VLDB99
paper. ARIES is covered in 14 books
and more than 80 universities' computer science courses across the world (Australia,
Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Korea,
New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, USA). Excluding
self-citations, so far, the main ARIES
paper (TODS,
March 1992) has been cited more than 230
times, the ARIES/IM
paper (SIGMOD92) 90 times, and the
ARIES/KVL paper (VLDB90) 60
times. The referenced citation lists are much more
complete than the ones at DBLP,
ACM
and ResearchIndex.
I am very thankful to the professors, authors and
systems builders who have made the ARIES algorithms extremely popular via
their books, courses, papers and implementations. Any comments, corrections and additions
to this page's contents would be most welcome!
C.
Mohan, Primary Inventor of the ARIES family of algorithms and IBM
Fellow, IBM Almaden
Research Center. |
C. Mohan Delivering the
Opening Keynote Speech "Repeating History
Beyond ARIES" at VLDB99 |
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Weihl, W. Transaction Processing Techniques, Chapter 13 in Distributed
Systems, S. Mullender (Ed.), 2nd Edition, ISBN 0-201-62427-3, ACM Press,
1993.
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Kumar, V. (Ed.). Performance
of Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Centralized Database
Systems, ISBN 0-13-065442-6, Prentice Hall,
1995.
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Ramamritham, K., Chrysanthis, P. Advances
in Concurrency Control and Transaction Processing, ISBN 0-81-867405-9,
IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
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Franklin, M. Concurrency
Control and Recovery, In The
Handbook of Computer Science and Engineering, A. Tucker (Ed.), ISBN
0-849-32909-4, CRC Press, 1997.
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Stonebraker, M., Hellerstein, J. (Eds.). Readings
in Database Systems, 3rd Edition, ISBN 1-558-60523-1, Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1998. Slides
on ARIES.
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Abdelguerfi,
M., Wong, K.-F. Parallel Database Techniques,
ISBN
0-8186-8398-8, IEEE Computer Science Press, July 1998.
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Kumar, V.,
Hsu, M.
(Eds.). Recovery
Mechanisms In Database Systems, ISBN 0-13-614215-X, Prentice Hall,
1998.
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Hvasshovd,
S.-O. Recovery
in Parallel Database Systems, 2nd Edition, ISBN 3-528-15411-X, Vieweg
Verlag, 1999.
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Ramakrishnan, R., Gehrke, J. Database Management Systems,
2nd Edition,
ISBN 0-07-232206-3, McGraw-Hill, August 1999. Slides
on ARIES.
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Saake, G., Heuer, A. Datenbanken: Implementierungstechniken, ISBN
3-8266-0513-6, MITP-Verlag, May 1999. German
slides on ARIES.
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Elmasri, R., Navathe, S. Fundamentals of Database Systems,
3rd Edition, ISBN 0-201-74153-9, Addison Wesley, 2000.
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Silberschatz, A., Korth, H.,
Sudarshan, S. Database
System Concepts, 4th Edition, ISBN 0-07-228363-7, McGraw-Hill, July
2001. Slides
on ARIES.
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Weikum,
G., Vossen, G. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the
Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery, ISBN
1-555860-508-8, Morgan
Kaufmann, 2001.
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Albano, A.
Costruire Sistemi
per Basi di Dati, ISBN
88-7192-106-2, Addison Wesley Longman, Milano, 2001.
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RECENT ADVANCES IN TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT
Invited Speaker: Prof. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
ADC '93,
Fourth Australian Database Conference
1-2 February 1993,
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Summary: For the past decade, transaction management
had a reputation as a field where research progress was irrelevant to
practitioners, since all systems used the same long-understood techniques
(namely two-phase locking and write-ahead logging). This has now
changed.
In the
past few years, there have been several exciting advances in transaction
management that seem certain to influence future commercial systems. One
is the invention and publication of improved techniques for implementation
of transaction management. In particular, an exciting series of papers
have come from the ARIES project led by C. Mohan at IBM Almaden Research
Laboratory. There are new algorithms which provide concurrency control for
B-tree indices, recovery compatible with fine-grained locking, and
concurrency control allowing long-running audits. Another
advance has been driven by advanced applications such as distributed
programming and collaborative design. In these domains the traditional
transaction model (with short, sequential, isolated transactions) is
inadequate. Instead, richer transaction models have been proposed, such as
sagas and nested transactions. Each new model needs new algorithms for
managing concurrency and failure.
This talk will present some of these exciting new
ideas. A unifying theme will be the identification of the interactions
between different aspects of transaction management.
The speaker: Alan Fekete holds a PhD from Harvard
University. In 1987-88 he worked at the Laboratory for Computer Science at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1988 he has been at the
University of Sydney, where he teaches the Database Systems course. His
research interest is the theory of distributed systems, especially the
algorithms for transaction management in distributed database management
systems. He has been involved in a major project to understand concurrency
control for nested transaction systems; this work is presented in the
recent book "Atomic Transactions" by Lynch, Merritt, Weihl and
Fekete (published by Morgan Kaufmann). |
| Charles Bash's Review
of the Main ARIES Article: Mohan, C., Haderle, D., Lindsay, B., Pirahesh, H.,
Schwarz, P. ARIES:
A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity
Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging,
ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 17, No.
1, March 1992, pp94-162.
New algorithms for database recovery and rollbacks are described. The
paper assumes that the database uses write-ahead logging (WAL), but it
describes in fine detail how the various activities during the update,
rollback, and recovery phases are to act so as to maximize concurrency and
minimize both overhead and time. In their introduction, the authors also
provide an excellent description of the current state of the art of
logging, failures, and recovery methods.
The paper is broken into 12 sections and has an extensive bibliography
(101 citations). The sections are an introduction, goals, an overview of
ARIES, a description of the major data structures, a discussion of the
actions that are part of normal processing (including transaction
failure), a description of restart processing (after system failure), a
description of the impact of checkpoints during restart, the methods
necessary for media recovery, top actions (independent transactions kicked
off by running transactions such as file extension), recovery paradigms
(mostly problems caused by them), properties of other WAL-based methods
(including references to several commercial implementations), and a
summary of the attributes of ARIES.
This paper is excellent both
for those who wish to know more about restart/recovery methods and for
those who wish to improve them. My only problem reading the paper
was the profusion of three-letter acronyms. These acronyms do reduce the
length of the paper significantly, and they are defined well on first
usage. Due to the length of the paper, however, the reader sometimes
wishes to find that definition again, which may be difficult. A short
glossary would help, and if it included a reference to the defining
section, the reader could again find the details easily.
I would like to thank the
authors for documenting this excellent work, which clearly will improve
the state of the art in recovery/restart. I recommend it for all who are
involved in database management system design or wish to understand the
internals better. |
| Reminiscences on Influential Papers, ACM SIGMOD Record,
September 1998
Prof. Betty Salzberg, Northeastern University, salzberg@ccs.neu.edu
[C. Mohan, D. Haderle, B. Lindsay, H. Pirahesh and P. Schwarz,
"ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity
Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging," ACM
Transactions on Database Systems, 17(1):94-162, March 1992.]
The ARIES paper was important
for me because it enabled me to envision the mechanisms of recovery in
database systems clearly. For example, I saw how Log Sequence
Numbers (LSNs) are used to enforce Write-Ahead-Logging (WAL). WAL says
that before a page with an update on it made by an uncommitted transaction
can be written to disk (overwriting the previous version of the page), the
pre-image of the updated record must be on disk somewhere else. But it is
always important to understand some mechanism by which a theoretical rule
can be enforced. The mechanism commonly used for WAL is the LSN. The LSN =
L on a database page P in the buffer in main memory is the LSN of the log
record of the most recent update on P . Log records contain preimages of
updated records and log records are written sequentially in increasing LSN
order. If the LSN of the most recent log record written to disk is smaller
than L , WAL implies that P cannot yet be written to disk. First, a
portion of the log containing the log record with LSN = L must be written
to disk. This is one of many recovery mechanisms I did not know and I
think many other database researchers did not know until preprints of the
ARIES paper were made available. Reading
the ARIES paper influenced much of my subsequent research. My
research on concurrency and recovery for B-link-tree-like access methods
(the II-tree and the hB-II tree) for example, uses LSNs to determine
whether an index page has been updated since the last visit. (If it has
not been updated, a new search through the tree can be avoided.) Issues
of latches vs. locks and support for fine-granularity locking, exposed in
the ARIES paper, were essential in the II-tree and the hB-II tree. The
concept of page-oriented vs. logical UNDO was explained in the ARIES paper
and used in the II-tree and hB-II tree. My research on transactional
workflow (DSDT) and on online reorganization uses the method of repeating
history from log records (from ARIES) to recreate system tables and/or
reestablish the state of an ongoing application. Now it is almost
impossible for me to imagine thinking of a database system without ARIES
style recovery. |
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VLDB'99 Ten-Year Paper Award
The Twenty Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases is
pleased to recognise and honour the significant contribution of the paper
"ARIES/NT: A Recovery Method Based on Write-Ahead Logging for Nested
Transactions" K. Rothermel and C. Mohan.
This was the first paper
describing the ARIES algorithm which has since proved widely applicable as
a means of efficiently ensuring durability for databases and other
persistent systems. It correctly handles logical logging and
non-idempotent operations.
This certificate was presented to C. Mohan in Edinburgh on Tuesday 7th
September 1999. |
C. Mohan receiving the Ten-Year Paper
Award at VLDB99
from Malcolm
Atkinson
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| Reminiscences on Influential
Papers, ACM SIGMOD Record,
March 2000
Prof. Pat O'Neil, UMass/Boston, poneil@cs.umb.edu
[C. Mohan. Concurrency Control and Recovery Methods for B+-Tree
Indexes: ARIES/KVL and ARIES/IM. Performance of Concurrency Control
Mechanisms in Centralized Database Systems, Prentice-Hall 1996, ISBN
0-13-065442-6]
For a number of years I was uncomfortable about my understanding of how
locking is used by vendors to prevent transactional phantoms, especially
since I knew that the "Predicate Locking" approach mentioned in
most texts had been dropped by System R many years ago (see: Astrahan et
al., TODS 1(2), 1976). When the KVL and IM locking approaches used at IBM
were first published by Mohan in VLDB-90 and SIGMOD-92, I was anxious to
learn them thoroughly, but I found it difficult to fully grasp the
concepts in a quick reading. It wasn't until a few years ago that I began
covering the combined KVL and IM paper above in detail, and presenting it
to my database internals class. I
now believe that the ideas underlying these locking protocols are probably
the most subtle in the database field. Since they are not easily
grasped, and since all the researchers I know are extremely busy, I think
they have received less attention than they deserve. I have heard
practitioners complain jokingly that Mohan's papers seem designed to
provide the detail necessary for experienced programmers to perform
immediate implementation. There is a certain amount of truth to this, and
I for one find it a wonderful thing. I
think an excellent database internals text could be written by simply
expanding on the ideas in this paper (latches, locking by hashing, lock
durations, logging, B-tree concurrency, etc.). The text would be
particularly valuable in an academic setting because the techniques
covered, some of which were a revelation to me, are ones that are ACTUALLY
USED by IBM database programmers. I cannot help but think that many
university researchers (both faculty and students) could overcome
perceived isolation from industrial realities by studying this seminal
work. Even practicing database system programmers, inside and outside IBM,
who have not already spent time on this paper, would be well advised to
expand their horizons by reading it carefully! |
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Rothermel,
K., Mohan, C. ARIES/NT:
A Recovery Method Based on Write-Ahead Logging for Nested
Transactions, Proc.
15th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Amsterdam, August 1989. A longer version of this paper is
available as IBM Research Report RJ6650, IBM Almaden
Research Center, January 1989. Received the "10
Year Best Impact Paper Award" at VLDB99.
Abstract Citations DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang,
I., Palmer, J. A Case Study of
Problems in Migrating to Distributed Computing: Page
Recovery Using Multiple Logs in the Shared Disks
Environment, IBM
Research Report RJ7343, IBM
Almaden Research Center, March 1990. Abstract
Citations ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C. Commit_LSN:
A Novel and Simple Method for Reducing Locking and
Latching in Transaction Processing Systems, Proc.
16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Brisbane, August 1990. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ7344, IBM Almaden Research Center, February 1990.
A slightly revised version appears in Performance
of Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Centralized Database
Systems, V. Kumar (Ed.),
Prentice Hall,
1995. Abstract Citations DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C. ARIES/KVL:
A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of
Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes,
Proc.
16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Brisbane, August 1990, pp392-405. A different version of
this paper is available as IBM Research Report RJ7008,
IBM Almaden Research Center, September 1989. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Pirahesh, H. ARIES-RRH: Restricted Repeating of History in the
ARIES Transaction Recovery Method, Proc.
7th International Conference on Data Engineering,
Kobe, April 1991. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ7342, IBM Almaden Research Center, July 1990. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang,
I. Recovery
and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page
Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks
Transaction Environment, Proc.
17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Barcelona, September 1991. A longer version of this paper
is available as IBM Research Report RJ8017, IBM
Almaden Research Center, March 1991. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I., Silen, S. Solutions to Hot Spot
Problems in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment, Proc.
4th International Workshop on High Performance
Transaction Systems, Asilomar, September 1991.
Also available as IBM
Research Report RJ8281, IBM Almaden
Research Center, August 1991. Abstract
Citations ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Haderle,
D., Lindsay,
B., Pirahesh, H.,
Schwarz, P. ARIES:
A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine-Granularity
Locking and Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging,
ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 17, No.
1, March 1992, pp94-162. Reprinted in Readings
in Database Systems, 3rd Edition, M.
Stonebraker, J. Hellerstein (Eds.), Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1998. Reprinted in Recovery
Mechanisms In Database Systems, V. Kumar, M. Hsu
(Eds.), Prentice Hall,
1998. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ6649, IBM
Almaden Research Center, January 1989; Revised November
1990. Abstract Citations DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. Efficient Locking and Caching of
Data in the Multisystem Shared Disks Transaction
Environment, Proc.
3rd International Conference on Extending Database
Technology, Vienna, March 1992. Also available as IBM Research Report RJ8301, IBM Almaden Research Center,
August 1991. Abstract Citations DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Levine, F. ARIES/IM:
An Efficient and High Concurrency Index Management Method
Using Write-Ahead Logging, Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
San Diego, June 1992. A longer version of this paper is
available as IBM Research Report RJ6846, IBM Almaden
Research Center, August 1989. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. Algorithms
for Creating Indexes for Very Large Tables Without
Quiescing Updates, Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
San Diego, June 1992. A longer version of this paper is
available as IBM Research Report RJ8016, IBM Almaden
Research Center, March 1991. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Pirahesh, H., Lorie, R. Efficient
and Flexible Methods for Transient Versioning of Records
to Avoid Locking by Read-Only Transactions, Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
San Diego, June 1992. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ8683, IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1992. Abstract
Citations
DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. Data Base Recovery in Shared Disks and
Client-Server Architectures, Proc. 12th
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems,
Yokohama, June 1992. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ8685, IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1992. Abstract
Citations ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Treiber, K., Obermarck, R. Algorithms for
the Management of Remote Backup Data Bases for Disaster
Recovery, Proc.
9th International Conference on Data Engineering,
Vienna, April 1993. A longer version of this paper is
available as IBM Research Report RJ7885, IBM Almaden
Research Center, December 1990; Revised June 1991. Abstract Citations
DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C. ARIES/LHS: A Concurrency Control and
Recovery Method Using Write-Ahead Logging for Linear
Hashing with Separators, Proc.
9th International Conference on Data Engineering,
Vienna, April 1993. A longer version of this paper is
available as IBM Research Report RJ8682, IBM Almaden
Research Center, March 1992. Abstract
Citations DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. An
Efficient and Flexible Method for Archiving a Data Base,
Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
Washington, D.C., May 1993. A corrected version of
this paper is available as IBM Research Report
RJ9733,
IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1993. DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C. A Cost-Effective
Method for Providing Improved Data Availability During
DBMS Restart Recovery After a Failure, Proc.
19th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Dublin, August 1993. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ8114, IBM
Almaden Research Center, May 1991. DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Haderle, D. Algorithms for Flexible Space
Management in Transaction Systems Supporting Fine-Granularity
Locking, Proc.
4th International Conference on Extending Database
Technology, Cambridge, March 1994. A longer
version of this paper is available as IBM Research
Report RJ9732, IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1994. DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Dievendorff, R. Recent
Work on Distributed Commit Protocols, and Recoverable
Messaging and Queuing, Data
Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 1994. DBLP
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. ARIES/CSA:
A Method for Database Recovery in Client-Server
Architectures, Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
Minneapolis, May 1994. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ9742, IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1994. DBLP
ACM
ResearchIndex
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Mohan, C., Narang, I. Locking and Latching Techniques
for Transaction Processing Systems Supporting the Shared
Disks Architecture, Research Report, IBM
Almaden Research Center, October 1994.
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Rane, S., Seshadri,
S., Mohan, C. Concurrency Control and Recovery
Algorithms for hcC-trees, IBM Research Report,
IBM Almaden Research Center, February 1995.
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Mohan, C. Disk Read-Write Optimizations and Data
Integrity in Transaction Systems Using Write-Ahead
Logging, Proc.
11th International Conference on Data Engineering,
Taipei, March 1995. Also available as IBM Research
Report RJ9741, IBM Almaden Research Center, March 1994.
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Mohan, C. Concurrency Control and Recovery Methods for
B+-Tree Indexes: ARIES/KVL and
ARIES/IM, Performance
of Concurrency Control Mechanisms in Centralized Database
Systems, V. Kumar (Ed.), Prentice Hall, 1995.
Also available as IBM Research Report RJ9715, IBM Almaden
Research Center, March 1994.
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Choy, D., Mohan,
C. Locking Protocols for Two-Tier Indexing of
Partitioned Data, Proc. International Workshop on
Advanced Transaction Models and Architectures, Goa,
August-September 1996.
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Kornacker, M., Mohan, C., Hellerstein, J. Concurrency
and Recovery in Generalized Search Trees, Proc.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data,
Tucson, May 1997.
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Josten, J., Mohan, C., Narang, I., Teng, J. DB2's
Use of the Coupling Facility for Data Sharing, IBM
Systems Journal, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1997.
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Mohan, C. Repeating
History Beyond ARIES, Invited paper
for receiving 10
Year Best Impact Paper Award, Proc.
25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,
Edinburgh, September 1999. Slides of
keynote speech. Abstract
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Mohan, C., Barber, R., Watts, S., Somani, A.,
Zaharioudakis, M. Evolution
of Groupware for Business Applications: A Database
Perspective on Lotus Domino/Notes, Proc. 26th International
Conference on Very Large Databases, Cairo, September 2000. Abstract
DBLP
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Narang, I., Mohan,
C., Brannon, K., Subramanian, M. Coordinated Backup and Recovery
between Database Management Systems and File Systems, Submitted
for Publication, IBM Almaden Research Center, October 2001. Abstract
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Mohan, C. An
Efficient Method for Performing Record Deletions and
Updates Using Index Scans, Proc.
28th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Hong Kong,
August 2002. Abstract
