Resurrecting Middle-Tier Distributed Transactions
Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering | , Vol 42(2): pp. 3-6
Over the years, platforms and application requirements change. As they do, technologies come, go, and return
again as the preferred solution to certain system problems. In each of its incarnations, the technology’s details
change but the principles remain the same. One such technology is distributed transactions on middle-tier servers.
Here, we argue that after a 15-year decline, they need to return to the mainstream