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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2016
Ab Initio Technology Llc, Lexington, MA (US);
Bryan Phil Douros, Framingham, MA (US);
Stephen A. Revilak, Arlington, MA (US);
Ab Initio Technology LLC, Lexington, MA (US);
Abstract
Managing potentially concurrent transactions in a distributed database system includes: maintaining, at a first node, records of transactions executing on one or more nodes, each having a transaction state, execution of a first transaction at a second node including an operation for accessing a first data element stored on the second node and execution of a second transaction at the second node including an operation for accessing the first data element; receiving, at the second node from the first node, a list of transactions including any transactions executing on the second node and having a first transaction state at a time of initiation of the second transaction, and including the first transaction; determining that an outcome of the second transaction depends on an outcome of the first transaction based on the list; and suspending execution of the second transaction until after the first transaction is complete based on the determining.