- H.T. Kung and John T. Robinson. "On Optimistic Methods for Concurrency Control." TODS, June, 1981. In Red Book.
As you read, note any terms you are unfamiliar with and come to class prepared to answer the following questions:
- When would you expect that optimistic concurrency control would outperform locking-based concurrency control?
- Can optimistic concurrency control result in deadlock?
- How would you implement optimistic concurrency control in SimpleDB?
Last change: 3/6/2013.
Questions or comments regarding 6.830/6.814? Send e-mail to the 6.830/6.814 staff at 6.830-staff at mit.edu.