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Optimistic Locking

Optimistic Locking is a concurrency control mechanism in version control systems that allows multiple transactions to proceed without immediate locking, relying instead on validation at commit time to detect and resolve conflicts.

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2017–2026

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Optimistic Concurrency Control

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On optimistic methods for concurrency control

H. T. Kung, John T. Robinson · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 1981 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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MemC3: Compact and Concurrent MemCache with Dumber Caching and Smarter Hashing

Bin Fan, David G. Andersen, Michael Kaminsky · Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University) · 2018 · 303 citations

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High-performance concurrency control mechanisms for main-memory databases

Per-Åke Larson, Spyros Blanas, Cristian Diaconu et al. · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2011 · 263 citations

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Observations on optimistic concurrency control schemes

Theo Härder · Information Systems · 1984 · 172 citations

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Efficient optimistic concurrency control using loosely synchronized clocks

Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov et al. · 1995 · 170 citations · Full text

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Authors

155

  1. PS
    Philip S. Yu

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    5 publications · 160 citations

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  2. DD
    D.M. Dias

    IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center, United States

    4 publications · 80 citations

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  3. VL
    Viktor Leis

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    3 publications · 165 citations

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  4. TN
    Thomas Neumann

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

    3 publications · 165 citations

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  5. ER
    Erhard Rahm

    Leipzig University, Germany

    2 publications · 84 citations

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Institutions

52

  1. IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center

    Yorktown Heights, United States

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    665 citations

  2. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    248 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    860 citations

  4. University of Kaiserslautern

    Kaiserslautern, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    256 citations

  5. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    3.6K citations

  6. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    134 citations

  7. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    114 citations

  8. Intel (United States)

    Santa Clara, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    337 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

    TKDE · 3 publications · 120 citations

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  2. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 3 publications · 73 citations

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  3. ACM Transactions on Database Systems

    TODS · 3 publications · 1.6K citations

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  4. Information Systems

    3 publications · 327 citations

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  5. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

    PVLDB · 2 publications · 300 citations

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