Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)
arXiv:2605.204660.51 citations
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Provides historical perspective and future outlook for transaction processing researchers.
This paper recounts early history of transaction research, explains its continued relevance despite being considered a solved problem, and speculates about its future.
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).