In this lecture we will survey key new ideas in transaction processing in the last 20 years, covering both single-node and multi-node systems, but with a focus on scalable distributed transaction processing.

Read the following paper:

• M. Stonebraker, S. Madden, D. J. Abadi, S. Harizopoulos, N. Hachem, and P. Helland. VLDB 2007. The End of an Architectural Era (It’s Time for a Complete Rewrite)
• [Optional] Alexander Thomson, Thaddeus Diamond, Shu-Chun Weng, Kun Ren, Philip Shao, and Daniel J. Abadi. SIGMOD 2012.Calvin: fast distributed transactions for partitioned database systems.
• [Optional] Yi Lu, Xiangyao Yu, Lei Cao, Samuel Madden. VLDB 2021. Epoch-based Commit and Replication in Distributed OLTP Databases