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....and open collaborative systems. Particularly in large scale environments, where the long time delays in network communications limit the usefulness of traditional concurrency control concepts like serializability, versioning provides an alternative mechanism for managing concurrent changes [CM86]. Intuitively, a multiversion database is a persistent object storing system in which every object may be potentially represented by practically unlimited number of its versions. In comparison to conventional (i.e. monoversion) databases, a multiversion database adds a new granule of data ....

M .J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna, The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms, ACM Transactions on Computers and Systems 4(4), pp. 338-378, November 1986.

....we assume that the transactions are required to be serializable. Therefore, none of the above approaches applies. 1.6. 2 Using Multiple Versions It is possible to increase concurrency if we make use of multi versioned data (Chan et al. 1990; Reed 1983; Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Goodman 1987; Carey and Muhanna 1986). A multi version concurrency control algorithm maintains old versions of updated data. Conflicts can be avoided by allowing read only transactions to see old versions. A disadvantage of this approach is that one has to maintain and manage the old versions. On the other hand, such an approach can ....

Carey, M. J. and Muhanna, W. A. 1986. The Performance of Multiversion Concurrency Control Algorithms. ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 4(4):338--378.

....The picture is somewhat different for distributed database CCMs where comparatively, very few performance studies have been done. There is an increasing interest in the performance of distributed database systems, in particular the use of multiple versions of data for improving concurrency [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 16]. The basic idea projected in these papers is to support more than one version of a data item and to allow a transaction to access the correct version. Informally, a correct version of a data item is the version, which a transaction would have used if it would have run serially. For example, ....

....approach, T 1 would have either rolled back or blocked depending upon the underlying CCM. The multiversion approach has a number of incarnations, each proposing a different method for using a version. For example, the scheme proposed in [1, 6] maintains only one version of a data item whereas in [2, 3, 4, 5] a number of versions are maintained. The algorithms that support multiple versions of a data item guarantee that read only transactions will not be rolled back and a write write conflict will not arise. This means that read only transactions (long or short) will read the correct version of the ....

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....of a data object that are slightly different in age or in precision are often acceptable. This observation underlies the concept of similarity among data values. A large body of literature exists concerning various approaches to effectively supporting concurrent transaction and query processing [1, 54, 73, 85, 55, 18, 21, 81, 20]. These approaches typically employ multiple versions of data to eliminate read write conflicts between update transactions and read only queries. Queries access transactionconsistent, but maybe out of date, database states. In contrast, ESR does not require multiple versions of data, thus does ....

....observed that at the time q commits, the x value read by q may not fall between [inf(x) sup(x) We show this point in an example. Assume that x is set to 0 initially. A query ET q first reads x. Two update ETs both issue M(x; 10) and one commits, which leaves the uncertainty interval of x to be [10,20]. Then q commits. The sequence 80 of operations is described as follow, R q (x) M u 1 (x; 10) M u 2 (x; 10) C u 2 ; C q : We can clearly see that the value (i.e. 0) read by q does not fall between the uncertainty interval (i.e. 10,20] Fact 1 Given a query ET, its import fuzziness ....

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M. Carey and W. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 4(4):338--378, Nov. 1986.

....database, as long as they access a transactionconsistent one that is not substantially obsolete. Severe data contention may exist between transactions and queries if both are to access the same database concurrently through a conventional concurrency control mechanism, such as two phase locking [2, 3]. To address this issue, there are typically three approaches. The first approach compromises serializability for queries, such as the cursor stability used in IBM s DB2 where the read locks acquired by queries are given up as the cursor moves from one page to the next. Queries always read ....

....both a record. 1 In DFV, M 2 logical snapshots can be maintained, and at most M 2 versions may be needed for each page. Unless otherwise mentioned, M = 2 is assumed for the description of DFV. Since physically copying the before image when a page is updated may incur a significant overhead [3], DFV does not overwrite the most recently committed version of a page to avoid such an overhead. Thus, the most recently committed version of each page always exists at any moment. Furthermore, because we allow the STEAL policy for transaction updates, a working version, representing the ....

M. J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna, "The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms," ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 338-- 378, Nov. 1986.

....component. We organized the available information for each component as a matrix structure. The knowledge domain TransactionManager includes a variety of commit and abort protocols. The knowledge domain PolicyManager is related to software hardware performance, reliability modeling techniques [Carey 86] Agrawal 87] and decision making. Basically, application usage, transaction semantics and software hardware architecture are the three major factors that determine the characteristics of a transaction. PolicyManager, therefore, may include models for these factors. Decisions can be made based on ....

M. Carey, & W. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Vol. 4. No. 4, November 1986, pp. 338-378.

....they are never blocked, nor do they block concurrent update transactions. In contrast, update transactions may conflict with each other and obey the strict two phase locking policy (henceforth, S2PL) Several performance analysis have shown the value of MV2PL over the standard S2PL protocol ( CM86] BC92a] Acknowledging its virtues, several database vendors have incorporated different variants of MV2PL into their products 2 . However, the benefits of multiversion concurrency control for concurrent update transactions is still controversial [BBG 95] Thus, no commercial DBMS ....

....have been designed with several objectives in mind. Objective 1: concurrency versus version overhead A multiversion scheme exposes to a well known tradeoff between the increased concurrency and the I O and storage overheads caused by the use of versions. This tradeoff was previously studied in [CM86] and [BC92a] in the case of multiversion two phase locking when read only transactions execute concurrently with update transactions. In the case of EMV2PL, the problem is complicated by the fact that write then read transactions use versions and conflict between each other. Thus, our first ....

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M. J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms. ACM Transactions on Computers and Systems, 4(4):338--378, November 1986.

....serialization order of T i . These algorithms are particularly effective for long queries, which otherwise cannot finish without stopping the update activity. However, most of the classic mvCC algorithms implicitly assume the database accommodates an infinite number of versions for each data item [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 15]. If not, a long running query may have to be aborted because some of the versions that it needs have been garbage collected prematurely. Thus, both storage overhead and version management complexity, such as version selection and garbage collection, can be a severe problem. Recently, a new class ....

M. J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, 4(4):338--378, Nov. 1986.

....is useful in the context of constraint checking in order to select a performant constraint checking method between the procedural check before write or write then check, and the declarative immediate or deferred methods. 4. 1 The Simulation Model Our simulation model is strongly derived from [CM86] ACL87] BC92] and [SLSV95] It has two parts: the system model simulates the behavior of the various operating system and DBMS components, while the application model simulates the database items and the transactional workload. 4.1.1 The System Model In our simulation, we model the ....

....performing any additional I Os. Also, these versions may sometimes be eliminated while still in the page and thus have not to be appended into the version pool at all. The physical queuing model is shown on Figure 5b. There are k resource units, each containing one CPU server and two I O servers ( CM86] The requests to the CPU queue and I O queues are serviced FCFS (first come, first serve) Parameter record cpu is the amount of CPU time for accessing a record in a page. Parameter page io access is the amount of I O time associated with accessing a data page from the disk. We added one ....

M. J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms. ACM Transactions on Computers and Systems, 4(4):338--378, November 1986.

....efficiently supports concurrent transaction and query processing. In concurrent transaction and query processing, severe interference may exist between transactions and queries if both are to access the same database concurrently through conventional concurrency control mechanisms, such as locking [7]. Multiversioning is the primary approach to addressing this issue. By maintaining multiple versions of data objects, interference between transactions and queries can be reduced, or eliminated: transactions create a new version of an object upon each update, while queries access an old, but ....

....transactions and queries can be reduced, or eliminated: transactions create a new version of an object upon each update, while queries access an old, but consistent, version. Various multiversioning schemes have been proposed to increase the level of concurrency between transactions and queries [2, 3, 4, 7, 19]. However, the increases in storage overhead and version management complexity, including garbage collection, may become significant [1, 8, 9, 17, 20] Recently, different schemes have been proposed to address these problems by maintaining a fixed number of database snapshots [5, 15, 21] A ....

M. J. Carey and W. A. Muhanna. The performance of multiversion concurrency control algorithms. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems, 4(4):338--378, Nov. 1986.

....the pseudo code for check read, assuming implementation context described in [GR93] 6 Performance Evaluation The EMV2PL protocol exposes to a clear tradeoff between the increased concurrency and the I O and storage overhead caused by the use of versions. This tradeoff was studied in detail in [CM86] and [BC92] Our EMV2PL protocol enables the use of versions within update transactions. Thus we are led to examine how EMV2PL behaves with respect to this tradeoff. We developed a simulation model highly inspired from [Car83] CM86] and [ACL87] This model was implemented using the SIM package ....

....by the use of versions. This tradeoff was studied in detail in [CM86] and [BC92] Our EMV2PL protocol enables the use of versions within update transactions. Thus we are led to examine how EMV2PL behaves with respect to this tradeoff. We developed a simulation model highly inspired from [Car83] CM86] and [ACL87] This model was implemented using the SIM package [ADW92] 12 which would be invoked instead of check read in MV2PL or 2PL INRIA Optimizing Active Database Transactions. 15 Data Manager Log Manager TERMINALS restart delay DATA ACCESS Agent CC ABORTED DONE Transaction Manager ....

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.... example, it has been adapted in the context of distributed transaction processing [Wei87] and has been evaluated through simulations together with two other multiversion techniques to study the level of concurrency and cpu, I O, and storage costs resulting from the use of multiple data versions[CM86] 3.1 Scheduling Rules and Transformation of Updaters Multiversion integrated scheduling combines 2PL and TO using multiple versions of data. It distinguishes two kinds of transactions: queries (read only transactions) and updaters. Queries are scheduled using timestamps and updaters are ....

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....to be efficient. A number of database research efforts have recently begun to address the problem of building database systems to accommodate a wide range of potential applications via some form of extensibility. Such projects include EXODUS at the University of Wisconsin [Carey and DeWitt 1985, Carey, et al. 1986b, Carey and DeWitt 1987] PROBE at CCA [Dayal and Smith 1985, Manola and Dayal 1986] POSTGRES at Berkeley [Stonebraker and Rowe 1986, Rowe and Stonebraker 1987] STARBURST at IBM Almaden [Schwarz, et al. 1986, Lindsay, et al. 1987] and GENESIS at UT Austin [Batory, et al. 1986] Although the ....

....are currently developing a data model and an associated query language to serve as starting points for subsequent EXODUS DBMS implementation efforts. In this chapter we describe the object and file management facilities of EXODUS. The initial design of the EXODUS storage manager was outlined in [Carey, et al. 1986a] this is an updated description, reflecting changes in the design that occurred as we developed the (now operational) first version of the system. The chapter is broken down as follows: The next section describes related work on next genera #################################### 1 Actually, ....

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