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ABSTRACT

While at the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory, in the 1970's, Dr. Jim Gray defined and developed the fundamental concepts and techniques that underlie on-line transaction processing systems. Jim Gray's pivotal contributions enabled cost efficient, on-line processing to replace paper and batch processing systems. Today, online transaction processing powers the record keeping systems that drive today's commerce, services, and government.

REFERENCES

• 1: {Blas 1981} Mike W. Blasgen, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Jim Gray, W. Frank King III, Bruce G. Lindsay, Raymond A. Lorie, James W. Mehl, Thomas G. Price, Gianfranco R. Putzolu, Mario Schkolnick, Patricia G. Selinger, Donald R. Slutz, H. Raymond Strong, Irving L. Traiger, Bradford W. Wade, Robert A. Yost, System R: An Architectural Overview, IBM Systems Journal(20): 41--62 (1981).
• 2: Donald D. Chamberlin , Morton M. Astrahan , Michael W. Blasgen , James N. Gray , W. Frank King , Bruce G. Lindsay , Raymond Lorie , James W. Mehl , Thomas G. Price , Franco Putzolu , Patricia Griffiths Selinger , Mario Schkolnick , Donald R. Slutz , Irving L. Traiger , Bradford W. Wade , Robert A. Yost, A history and evaluation of System R, Communications of the ACM, v.24 n.10, p.632-646, Oct. 1981 [doi>10.1145/358769.358784]
• 3: K. P. Eswaran , J. N. Gray , R. A. Lorie , I. L. Traiger, The notions of consistency and predicate locks in a database system, Communications of the ACM, v.19 n.11, p.624-633, Nov. 1976 [doi>10.1145/360363.360369]
• 4: J. N. Gray , R. A. Lorie , G. R. Putzolu, Granularity of locks in a shared data base, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 22-24, 1975, Framingham, Massachusetts [doi>10.1145/1282480.1282513]
• 5: Jim Gray, Notes on Data Base Operating Systems, Operating Systems, An Advanced Course, p.393-481, January 1978
• 6: Jim Gray , Paul McJones , Mike Blasgen , Bruce Lindsay , Raymond Lorie , Tom Price , Franco Putzolu , Irving Traiger, The Recovery Manager of the System R Database Manager, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), v.13 n.2, p.223-242, June 1981 [doi>10.1145/356842.356847]
• 7: Jim Gray, The transaction concept: virtues and limitations (invited paper), Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Very Large Data Bases, p.144-154, September 09-11, 1981, Cannes, France
• 8: Jim Gray , Andreas Reuter, Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1992

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT
      H.2.4 Systems
          Subjects: Transaction processing

Additional Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.1 COMPUTATION BY ABSTRACT DEVICES
      F.1.2 Modes of Computation
          Subjects: Online computation

  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Performance evaluation (efficiency and effectiveness)

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Performance