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Stonebraker & Hellerstein, eds.

Handling the Buffer Pool

Force write to disk at commit?

Poor response time.
But provides durability.

Steal buffer-pool frames from uncommited Xacts?

If not, poor throughput.
If so, how can we ensure atomicity?

Force

No Force

No Steal

Steal

Trivial

Desired

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