Resurrecting Middle-Tier Distributed Transactions.
Philip A. Bernstein · IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin · 2019
Over the years, platforms and application requirements change. As they do, technologies come, go, and return again as the preferred solution to certain system problems. In each of its incarnations, the technology’s details change but the principles remain the same. One such technology is distributed transactions on middle-tier servers. Here, we argue that after a 15-year decline, they need to return to the mainstream