Analysis of transaction management performance
Dan Duchamp · 1989
There is currently much interest in incorporating transactions into both operating systems and general-purpose programming languages. This paper provides a detailed examination of the design and performance of the transaction manager of the Camelot system. Camelot is a transaction facility that provides a rich model of transactions intended to support a wide variety of general-purpose applications. The transaction manager's principal function is to execute the protocols that ensure atomicity.