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The robustness and sensitivity of four two-phase databases concurrency control mechanisms are studied under a dynamically changing workload due to the bursty arrival of transactions. The concurrency control mechanisms are studied under closely controlled conditions in which the only variable is the coefficient of variance of the arrival rate distribution. This paper shows that bursty traffic does impact the performance of the concurrency control mechanisms at both high and low loads, and that the degree of this impact is different for the different mechanisms investigated. We also show that the behavior of some CCMs change significantly under such environment.
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Place, J., Kumar, V., van de Liefvoort, A. (1991). The behavior of database concurrency control mechanisms under bursty arrivals. In: Akl, S.G., Fiala, F., Koczkodaj, W.W. (eds) Advances in Computing and Information — ICCI '90. ICCI 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 468. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53504-7_90
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