[2605.20466] Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)

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[Submitted on 19 May 2026]

Title:Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)

Authors:Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research)<br>View a PDF of the paper titled Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended), by Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research)

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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).

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Databases (cs.DB); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.20466

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Journal reference:<br>Philip A. Bernstein. 2025. Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research. In Companion of the 2025 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD-Companion '25), June 22-27, 2025, Berlin, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3722212.3727992

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Submission history<br>From: Philip Bernstein [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:12 UTC (379 KB)

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