Distributed Transactions for Reliable Systems

CMU-CS-85-117

Alfred Z. Spector, Dean Daniels, Daniel Duchamp, Jeffrey L. Eppinger, Randy Pausch

September 1985

Facilities that support distributed transactions on user-defined types can be implemented efficiently and can simplify the construction of reliable distributed programs. To demonstrate these points, this paper describes a prototype transaction facility, called TABS, that supports objects, transparent communication, synchronization, recovery, and transaction management. Various objects that use the facilities of TABS are exemplified and the performance of the system is discussed in detail. The paper concludes that the prototype provides useful facilities, and that it would be feasible to build a high performance implementation based on its ideas.

37 pages

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