C. Mohan
Don Haderle
Bruce Lindsay
Hamid Pirahesh
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DB2TM, IMS, and TandemTM systems. ARIES is applicable not only to database management systems but also to persistent object-oriented languages, recoverable file systems and transaction-based operating systems. ARIES has been implemented, to varying degrees, in IBM's OS/2TM Extended Edition Database Manager, DB2, Workstation Data Save Facility/VM, Starburst and QuickSilver, and in the University of Wisconsin's EXODUS and Gamma database machine.
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Charles William Bash
New algorithms for database recovery and rollbacks are described. The paper assumes that the database uses write-ahead logging (WAL), but it describes in fine detail how the various activities during the update, rollback, and recovery phases are to act so as to maximize concurrency and minimize both overhead and time. In their introduction, the authors also provide an excellent description of the current state of the art of logging, failures, and recovery methods. The paper is broken into 12 sections and has an extensive bibliography (101 citations). The sections are an introduction, goals, an overview of ARIES, a description of the major data structures, a discussion of the actions that are part of normal processing (including transaction failure), a description of restart processing (after system failure), a description of the impact of checkpoints during restart, the methods necessary for media recovery, top actions (independent transactions kicked off by running transactions such as file extension), recovery paradigms (mostly problems caused by them), properties of other WAL-based methods (including references to several commercial implementations), and a summary of the attributes of ARIES. This paper is excellent both for those who wish to know more about restart/recovery methods and for those who wish to improve them. My only problem reading the paper was the profusion of three-letter acronyms. These acronyms do reduce the length of the paper significantly, and they are defined well on first usage. Due to the length of the paper, however, the reader sometimes wishes to find that definition again, which may be difficult. A short glossary would help, and if it included a reference to the defining section, the reader could again find the details easily. I would like to thank the authors for documenting this excellent work, which clearly will improve the state of the art in recovery/restart. I recommend it for all who are involved in database management system design or wish to understand the internals better.
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