Definition
Systems implement application recovery to enable applications to survive system crashes and provide “exactly once execution” in which the result of executing the application is equivalent to a single execution where no system crashes or failures occur.
Historical Background
Application recovery was first commercially provided by IBM’s CICS (Customer Information Control System). Generically, these kinds of systems became known as transaction processing monitors (TP monitors) [5,9]. With a TP monitor, applications are decomposed into a series of steps. Each step is executed within a transaction. A step typically consists of reading input state from a database or transactional queue, executing some business logic, perhaps processing user input or reading and writing to a database, and finally, writing state for the next step into database or queue [
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Lomet, D. (2009). Application Recovery. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_20
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