Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance and Analysis is a
review of developments in concurrency control methods for centralized
database systems, with a quick digression into distributed databases and
multicomputers, the emphasis being on performance.
The main goals of Database Concurrency Control: Methods, Performance
and Analysis are to succinctly specify various concurrency control
methods; to describe models for evaluating the relative performance of
concurrency control methods; to point out problem areas in earlier
performance analyses; to introduce queuing network models to evaluate
the baseline performance of transaction processing systems; to provide
insights into the relative performance of transaction processing
systems; to illustrate the application of basic analytic methods to the
performance analysis of various concurrency control methods; to review
transaction models which are intended to relieve the effect of lock
contention; to provide guidelines for improving the performance of
transaction processing systems due to concurrency control; and to point
out areas for further investigation.
This monograph should be of direct interest to computer scientists doing
research on concurrency control methods for high performance transaction
processing systems, designers of such systems, and professionals
concerned with improving (tuning) the performance of transaction
processing systems.
