Red: [9fans] Adding transaction semantics to Plan9

[G. David Butler gdb@dbSystems.com]

From: Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
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>>             To go to isolation level 4 in a distributed database
>>you need *more*.
>
>That's interesting.  I've been trying to gain an understanding
>of transaction processing.  I'm only familiar with the 2P commit
>stuff.  Do you have any references on the sort of protocols you
>need to get the high isolation levels in a distributing setting?
>Especially interested in on-line stuff; I don't have easy access
>to a university library.

Well, you can look at distributed OSs like amoeba or distributed
middleware like ISIS.  A good place for transaction info is
the Transaction Processing Performance Council (www.tpc.org)
of TPC-A,B,C&D fame.

For my part, since everyone is so patent crazy now, I just roll
my own... (and document the hell out of the dates and processes.)

David Butler
gdb@dbSystems.com