Time-Constrained Transaction Management: Real-Time Constraints in Database Transaction Systems

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Traditional Transactions.- 1.2 Temporal Considerations.- 1.3 Related Work.- 1.4 Overview.- 2 A Model.- 2.1 Centralized Environments.- 2.2 Distributed Executions.- 3 Centralized Scheduling.- 3.1 Performance Metrics.- 3.2 Traditional Scheduling.- 3.3 Optimization in Scheduling.- 3.4 Countering Intractability.- 3.5 Uncertainty in Scheduling.- 4 Distributed Scheduling.- 4.1 Integrating Local Executions.- 4.2 A Synchronization Protocol.- 4.3 Restrictions on Executions.- 4.4 Other Integration Issues.- 4.5 Global Atomic Commitment.- 5 Semantics in Scheduling.- 5.1 Adaptive Commitment.- 5.2 Data-value Partitioning.- 6 Conclusions.- 6.1 Issues in I/O.- 6.2 Scheduling Online.- 6.3 Wider Applicability.- 6.4 In Summary.- References.