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Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)

Philip A. Bernstein

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Abstract

In this short paper, I recount some early history of transaction research (including some of my own), explain why transaction research continues to this day (even though it seems to be a solved problem), and speculate about its future. This is an extended version of the paper that appeared in the Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-Companion '25).

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Journal reference
Philip A. Bernstein. 2025. Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research. In Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-Companion '25), June 22-27, 2025, Berlin, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA
DOI
doi:10.1145/3722212.3727992
Subjects
cs.DBDatabases cs.DCDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

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