Re: Efficient way of global concurrency control/serializability in federated databases??

On Oct 9, 1:40 pm, "Jan Hidders" <hidd..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> anonym wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I am preparing an analysis report and need some help.
> > Currently, what is the most efficient / most used way of ensuring
> > global concurrency control / serializability in federated
> > databases/multidatabases ??http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase-commit_protocol

Jan,

Word on the street is that the world is giving up on two phase commit. Although I'm not sure I agree, I can see some of the motivations. The thing that bothers me, though, is that any potential replacements are necessarily application-specific, and can't be handled in a fully automatic way.

Any good papers to read about alternatives to 2PC?

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 10 2006 - 05:29:07 CEST