Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)
arXiv:2605.20466 · doi:10.1145/3722212.3727992
Abstract
In this short paper, I recount some early history of transaction research (including some of my own), explain why transaction research continues to this day (even though it seems to be a solved problem), and speculate about its future. This is an extended version of the paper that appeared in the Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-Companion '25).