Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates
| Autor: | Bas Ketsman, Frank Neven, Brecht Vandevoort, Christoph Koch |
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| Přispěvatelé: | VANDEVOORT, Brecht, KETSMAN, Bas, Koch, Christoph, NEVEN, Frank, Software Languages Lab, Informatics and Applied Informatics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
snapshot isolation Database Computer science Concurrency General Engineering Databases (cs.DB) robustness computer.software_genre locking serializable executions Consistency (database systems) transactions Template Computer Science - Databases Robustness (computer science) cost optimistic concurrency-control contention concurrency Database transaction Throughput (business) computer |
| Popis: | The isolation level Multiversion Read Committed (RC), offered by many database systems, is known to trade consistency for increased transaction throughput. Sometimes, transaction workloads can be safely executed under RC obtaining the perfect isolation of serializability at the lower cost of RC. To identify such cases, we introduce an expressive model of transaction programs to better reason about the serializability of transactional workloads. We develop tractable algorithms to decide whether any possible schedule of a workload executed under RC is serializable (referred to as the robustness problem). Our approach yields robust subsets that are larger than those identified by previous methods. We provide experimental evidence that workloads that are robust against RC can be evaluated faster under RC compared to stronger isolation levels. We discuss techniques for making workloads robust against RC by promoting selective read operations to updates. Depending on the scenario, the performance improvements can be considerable. Robustness testing and safely executing transactions under the lower isolation level RC can therefore provide a direct way to increase transaction throughput without changing DBMS internals. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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