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COM 1317 - Transaction Processing Systems

Focuses on the concepts and practice of modern processing systems in a distributed setting. Describes the overall architecture of systems such as TP monitor, recovery manager, lock manager, log manager, and lock manager. Discusses the principles of DO/UNDO/REDO logging such as the write-ahead log rule and the force log-on-commit rule. Describes compensation log records, checkpoint and restart recovery procedures, two-phase commit, lock tables, granularity of locking, and two-phase locking.

Prereq. COM 1315