Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)
Databases
2026-05-21 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
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).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.20466,
title = {Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research (extended)},
author = {Philip A. Bernstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20466},
year = {2026}
}