Extending TP--Monitors for Intra-Transaction Parallelism |
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| Title | Extending TP--Monitors for Intra-Transaction Parallelism |
| Author(s) | K. Kaufmann, H.-J. Schek |
| Type | inproceedings |
| Booktitle | Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems Miami Beach, Florida |
| Organization | |
| Month | December |
| Year | 1996 |
AbstractInter-transaction parallelism, the concurrent execution of independent client transactions, is currently well supported by database systems. Intra-transaction parallelism, the parallel execution of operations within the same transaction, is generally not supported, even though often necessary especially in non-standard applications. In this paper we show how database operations within the same transaction can be executed concurrently by executing them as independent sub-transactions. This is possible because we employ a two-level transaction approach where the lower level is provided by virtually any of today's databases. The higher level is realised by a transaction processing monitor that is extended with an additional transaction manager for the scheduling of application service calls. We present results of a prototype implementation using Tuxedo and a relational database system using a document management application as an example. |