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Härder, Reuter, and ACID: The Vocabulary That Defined Reliable Database Transactions

The ACID acronym did not invent database transactions, but Theo Härder and Andreas Reuter's 1983 framework gave the field a durable four-part vocabulary—atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability—for discussing transaction guarantees.

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Jim Gray and Transaction Processing: Making Databases Reliable Under Failure

Jim Gray unified concurrency control, recovery and the transaction abstraction into a framework for keeping shared databases correct even when operations overlap and systems fail.

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