Re: XQuery (and XML) vs LISP

vc wrote:
> Jan Hidders wrote:
> [...]
> > I knew that the DBMSs you mention use a locking protocol from the ARIES
> > family, but I thought it was one of the more general ones,
>
> What 'more general' protocol do you have in mind exactly?

The basice ARIES protocol, as he describes it on his VLDB 1999 sheets on page 4:

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/vldb99_aries_slides.pdf

( For those who are interested, there is a very extensive description in TODS: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=128770 )

He mentions the more specific ones on page 5. I'm still curious which of those are actually used in which DBMS.

• Jan Hidders