Transactions

There are two types of transactions in robotic environment.

1. Local transactions: For example it deals with local team of robots

2. Global transactions: it deals with the entire global environments, all the teams in
our environment.
Condition:
• There should be synchronization of transactions , that are executing
concurrently with in a local site(i.e synchronization within a team of
robots)
• As well as the synchronization of transactions with global transactions
running simultaneously at same or different sites.(i.e synchronization
between all the teams in entire global environment)
Transaction manager will be taking care of these conditions.
Types of transactions
• Retriable
• Pivot
• Compensatable
 Retriable: transaction ti is said to be retriable, if it is guaranteed to commit
after a finite number of submissions when executed from any consistent
database state. I.e even if transaction fails, it can be retried again and again,
for certain times until it succeeds. Based on the Battery life available for a
robot, even if the transaction gets aborted it can be retried again and again.
 Compensatable: Consider a transaction ti , it is retried again and again, but
it doesn’t succeeds, we should select another transaction cti, that can commit
successfully with the same characteristics as ti. Then we say cti is
compensating for ti. ,such an transaction cti is called compensatable
transaction. For example if working of an robot is failed, then a compensating
robot with same characteristics (performance) and battery life can be replaced
instead of that robot.
For example: Transaction t1 is aborted in middle, so to compensate that ct1 is
does the task and commits. If in the middle T1 restores and commits. Then ct1
will backtracks and rollbacks the commits, because t1 is working now.

 Pivot: A transaction ti is said to be a pivot sub transaction, if it is neither

retriable nor compensatable. In our environment, if the robot is completely
worn and no compensating robots for that task, that transaction can never
take place. So the transaction is a pivot one.