Transaction Processing

Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the
fields of databases and operating systems and are used to monitor,
control and update information in modern computer systems. This book
will show you how large, distributed, heterogeneous computer systems
can be made to work reliably. Using transactions as a unifying
conceptual framework, the authors show how to build high-performance
distributed systems and high-availability applications with finite
budgets and risk.

The authors provide detailed explanations of why various
problems occur as well practical, usable techniques for their
solution. Throughout the book, examples and techniques are drawn from
the most successful commercial and research systems. Extensive use of
compilable C code fragments demonstrates the many transaction
processing algorithms presented in the book. The book will be valuable
to anyone interested in implementing distributed systems or
client/server architectures.

Contents

• Introduction
  
• Basic Computer Science Terminology
  
• Fault Tolerance
  
• Transaction Models
  
• Transaction Processing Monitors: An Overview
  
• Transaction Processing Monitors
  
• Isolation Concepts
  
• Lock Implementation
  
• Log Manager
  
• Transaction Manager Concepts
  
• Transaction Manager Structure
  
• Advanced Transaction Manager Topics
  
• File and Buffer Management
  
• The Tuple-Oriented File System
  
• Access Paths
  
• Survey of TP Systems
  
• References
  
• Data Structures and Interfaces
  
• Glossary Now in its third printing.
  

Table of contents

Foreword by Bruce Lindsay
Preface
Part One: The Basics of Transaction Processing

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Basic Computer Science Terminology

Part Two: The Basics of Fault Tolerance

Chapter 3: Fault Tolerance

Part Three: Transaction-Oriented Computing

Chapter 4: Transaction Models
Chapter 5: Transaction Processing Monitors: An Overview
Chapter 6: Transaction Processing Monitors

Part Four: Concurrency Control

Chapter 7: Isolation Concepts
Chapter 8: Lock Implementation

Part Five: Recovery

Chapter 9: Log Manager
Chapter 10: Transaction Manager Concepts
Chapter 11: Transaction Manager Structure
Chapter 12: Advanced Transaction Manager TOPICS

Part Six: Transactional File System: A Sample Resource Manager

Chapter 13: File and Buffer Management
Chapter 14: The Tuple-Orientec File System
Chapter 15: Access Paths

Part Seven: System Surveys

Chapter 16: Survey of TP SystemS

Part Eight: Addenda

Chapter 17: References
Chapter 18: Data Structures and Interfaces
Chapter 19: Glossary

Index