↤ Database Startups| transactional.blog
There have been many attempts to formalize the zoo of various transaction isolation and consistency concepts over the years. It is not always clear, though, to what extent these attempts have clarified things, especially when each approach has introduced new variations of complexity and formal notation. The rise of distributed storage and database systems and the need to reason about isolation in these contexts has likely worsened the situation.| William Schultz
October 07, 2024 at 19:16| eli.thegreenplace.net
Back in August, Murat Derimbas published a blog post about the paper by Herlihy and Wing that first introduced the concept of linearizability. When we move from sequential programs to concurrent on…| Surfing Complexity
I have been working at a database company for over seven years and I must admit I haven't quite figured out isolation levels yet. But I was in a meeting recently where we were discussing materialized views and snapshot isolation, and I just couldn't understand how these two could possibly| David Gomes