Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1 The Basics
1.2 TP System Architecture
1.3 Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability
1.4 Two-Phase Commit
1.5 Transaction Processing Performance
1.6 Availability
1.7 Styles of Systems
1.8 TP System Configurations
1.9 Summary

2. Transaction Processing Abstractions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Transactions
2.3 Processes and Threads
2.4 Remote Procedure Call
2.5 Shared State
2.6 Scalability
2.7 Summary

3. TP Application Architecture
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Application Architecture
3.3 Front-End Program
3.4 Request Controller
3.5 Transaction Servers
3.6 Transactional middleware
3.7 Database Servers vs. Transactional Middleware
3.8 Summary

4. Queued Transaction Processing
4.1 Why Use Queues?
4.2 The Queued Transaction Processing Model
4.3 Client Recovery
4.4 Handling Non-Undo-able Operations
4.5 The Queue Manager
4.6 Publish-Subscribe
4.7 Other Message-Oriented Middleware
4.8 Queuing Products and Standards
4.9 Summary

5. Business Process Management
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Business Process Definition
5.3 Business Process Execution
5.4 Transactional Properties
5.5 Making Process State Durable
5.6 Other Models of Business Processes
5.7 Products and Standards
5.8 Summary

6. Locking
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Implementation
6.3 Deadlocks
6.4 Performance
6.5 Hot Spots
6.6 Query-Update Problems
6.7 Avoiding Phantoms
6.8 Optimistic Concurrency Control
6.9 B-Tree Locking
6.10 Multigranularity Locking
6.11 Locking Nested Transactions
6.12 Summary
6.13 Appendix - Basic Serializability Theory

7. System Recovery
7.1 Causes of System Failure
7.2 A Model for System Recovery
7.3 Introduction to Database Recovery
7.4 The System Model
7.5 Database Recovery Manager
7.6 Shadow-Paging Algorithm
7.7 Log-Based Database Recovery Algorithms
7.8 Optimizing Restart in Log-Based Algorithms
7.9 Media Recovery
7.10 Summary

8. Two-Phase Commit
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Two-Phase Commit Protocol
8.3 Failure Handling
8.4 Optimizations and Variations
8.5 Process Structuring
8.6 User Checklist
8.7 Summary

9. Replication
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Replicated Servers
9.3 Synchronizing Updates to Replicated Data
9.4 Single-Master Primary-Copy Replication
9.5 Multi-Master Replication
9.6 Other Replication Techniques
9.7 Data Sharing Systems
9.8 Summary

10. Transactional Middleware Products and Standards
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Web Browser Front-End Programs
10.3 .NET Framework
10.4 Java Enterprise Edition
10.5 Service Oriented Architecture
10.6 Persistence Abstraction Mechanisms
10.7 Legacy TP Monitors
10.8 TP Standards
10.9 Summary

11. Future Trends
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Cloud Computing
11.3 Scalable Distributed Computing
11.4 Memory Technology
11.5 Streams and Event Processing
11.6 Summary