Transaction Processing

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Transaction Processing

• Jim Gray
• Microsoft Research
• http//www.research.Microsoft.com/Gray

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Whats New in TP?

• The Internet
• commerce,
• HTTP standard
• Web servers are app servers
• Objects
• DCOM, CORBAOpenDoc
• Mobile Agents
• Java or VB (script or language)
• Commodity
• MTS plugNplay CD with nano manual

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Can Web Servers Do TP?

• All Microsoft TPC benchmarks done with Web server
  (IIS) as TP monitor.
• Uses HTTP as wire protocol, ODBC as local
  protocol
• Gets GREAT! Performance (2KtpmC/cpu)

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Objects!

• Desktop development
• Drag Drop deployment
• Scripting work flows with VBScript or JavaScript
• Server shell does all the voodoo
• configure
• load balance
• authenticate/authorize
• thread pool

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Prediction The next big event

• Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, and others will
  unify
• ORBS and
• Web Servers and
• TP monitors
• Stored procedures (TP lite)
• Results will be rough at first, but they will
  mature quickly