Optimistic Database Speculation       

Middleware and Datastores Accomplishment | 1981

IBM researcher: John T. Robinson

Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

What we accomplished: Speculate optimistically that there will not be conflicts in updating a transactional database, and be able to recover in all cases when speculation fails. John T. Robinson, pictured.

Related links: On Optimistic Methods for Concurrency Control (with H.T. Kung), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), Vo.l 6, No. 2, June 1981; Slides summarizing paper

 

Image credit: LinkedIn personal photo

 

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