Abstract—Concurrency control (CC) in distributed and
multidimensional databases is becoming more important due to
recent increase in high-volume data storage with increasing
online transaction processing (OLTP) requirements for
medium and large organisations. This paper examines three
concurrency control mechanisms commonly adopted and
analyses their performance in distributed databases for OLTP
operational systems of enterprises. The three CC mechanisms
investigated are, two phase locking (2PL), wait depth limited
(WDL) and optimistic concurrency control. These CC
mechanisms have been studied well in disk-based systems.
However, with the recent advances of cost-effective main
memory or in-memory storage that can support much higher
transaction rates than disk-based systems, there is sufficient
motivation to re-investigate the performance of such CC
mechanisms in diverse processor configurations. This paper
presents a comparison of their behaviour and performance in
terms of throughput rates achieved with varying transaction
size and contention. The outcome of this study has resulted in
further research proposals for improving the performance of
these CC mechanisms for OLTP databases.
Index Terms—Concurrency control, online transaction
processing (OLTP), in-memory databases, performance.
The authors are with the Department of Higher Education (IT) - Business,
Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE, VIC 3066 Australia (e-mail:
SamKaspi@nmit.edu.au, SitaVenkat@nmit.edu.au).
Cite: Samuel Kaspi and Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, "Performance Analysis of Concurrency Control Mechanisms for OLTP Databases," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 313-318, 2014.