Life Beyond Distributed Transactions - ACM QueueDecember 12, 2016 Volume 14, issue 5 PDF Life Beyond Distributed Transactions An apostate's opinion Pat Helland This is an updated and abbreviated version of a paper by the same name first published in CIDR (Conference on Innovative Database Research) 2007. Transactions are amazingly powerful mechanisms, and I've spent the majority of my almost 40-year career working on them. In 1982, I first work
