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Split Transactions

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The split transaction is an extended transaction model that introduces two new transaction management primitives/operations, namely, split and join. The split operation on a transaction T splits T and replaces it with two serializable transactions; each one is later committed or aborted independently of the other. The inverse of split is the join operation on a transaction T which dissolves T by joining its results with a target transaction S.

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The concept of split transactions was introduced by Pu, Kaiser, and Hutchinson in [3] and later elaborated in [2] to support open-ended activities such as CAD/CAM projects, engineering type of applications, and software development. The syntax of the split-transaction operation on transaction T produces two new transactions A and B and dissolves T [2, 3]:

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  • A: (AReadSet, AWriteSet, AProcedure)

  • B: (BReadSet, BWriteSet, BProcedure)) where AReadSet, AWriteSet, BReadSet, and BWriteSetare sets of data items...

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  1. Chrysanthis PK, Ramamritham K. Synthesis of extended transaction models using ACTA. ACM Trans Database Syst. 1994;19(3):450–91.

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  2. Kaiser GE, Pu C. Dynamic restructuring of transactions. In: Elmagarmid AK, editor. Database transaction models for advanced applications. Burlington: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers; 1992. p. 265–95.

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  3. Pu C, Kaiser GE, Hutchinson NC. Split-transactions for open-ended activities. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases; 1988. p. 26–37.

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  1. University of Maryland, Baltimore Country (UMBC), Baltimore, MD, USA

    George Karabatis

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Panos K. Chrysanthis

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Karabatis, G. (2018). Split Transactions. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_725

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