A pipeline-based approach for long transaction processing in web service environments

Author: Tang Feilong   You Ilsun   Li Li   Wang Cho-Li   Cheng Zixue   Guo Song  

Publisher: Inderscience Publishers

ISSN: 1741-1106

Source: International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Vol.7, Iss.2, 2011-05, pp. : 190-207

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Abstract

In web service environments, long transactions need to lock resources – often database services – for a long time during their long execution duration. This would bring down the performance of transaction processing systems. The transaction compensation is a feasible solution through allowing sub-transactions to independently commit, however, it is not able to speed up the transaction processing. This paper proposes a novel pipeline-based transaction processing (PLbTP) model for Serial Long Transactions (SLTs), which parallelises the transaction processing to reduce the transaction execution duration. Furthermore, we design a time-stamp-based deadlock prevention mechanism for the control of multiple concurrent transactions. The simulation results demonstrate that our approach can significantly improve performance of SLTs without the aid of compensating transactions.