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On using an Abstract Model of Distributed Database Concurrency Control Methods

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7600, Republic of South Africa, 2 Department of Computer Science, Rand Afrikaans University, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg 2000, Republic of South Africa
An abstract model is presented, which provides a framework for analytically evaluating and quantitatively comparing the overhead costs of distributed database concurrency control methods. It is shown that although it is basically a straightforward model, it has numerous virtues.
* Department of Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch 7600, Republic of South Africa
Department of Computer Science, Rand Afrikaans University, P.O. Box 524, Johannesburg 2000, Republic of South Africa