Clustered transaction processing for electronic commerce

As electronic commerce (EC) comes into wide use, transaction processing is playing a more important role. Although existing EC protocols provide the fundamental workflow of EC, the transaction processing facility is still insufficient, especially in aspects regarding the execution order of the transactions. Motivated by the observation that strict ordering of individual EC transactions is meaningless, we present clustered transaction processing for EC in order to realize relaxed execution ordering of transactions. Our proposed clustered transaction processing approach can support not only concurrency control but also recovery of the transaction processing in EC