Computer Science · Databases & Data Systems
A topic within Databases & Data Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
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Jim Gray
Defines the transaction as the unit that must appear atomic, consistent, isolated and durable, and argues this one abstraction is what lets application programmers ignore concurrency and failure.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Mohan et al.
Gives a recovery algorithm built on write-ahead logging that can redo and undo at the level of individual operations rather than whole transactions, becoming the recovery method most commercial databases still use.