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Serializable isolation for snapshot databases

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Cahill, Michael J., Röhm, Uwe, Fekete, Alan D.·2008·Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
DOI 10.1145/1376616.1376690
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Many popular database management systems offer snapshot isolation rather than full serializability. There are well-known anomalies permitted by snapshot isolation that can lead to violations of data consistency by interleaving transactions that individually maintain consistency. Until now, the only way to prevent these anomalies was to modify the applications by introducing artificial locking or update conflicts, following careful analysis of conflicts between all pairs of transactions.

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Authors
Cahill, M. J., Röhm, U., & Fekete, A. D.
Affiliations
The University of Sydney (AU)
ORCID
Venue
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Publisher
ACM
Published
2008-06-09
Pages
729-738
ISSN
0730-8078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376690
OpenAlex
W1987358714
Cited by
120
References
0
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FWCI
4.63
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (publishedVersion)
  • The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney) (submittedVersion)
  • UPT. Syiah Kuala University Library (Syiah Kuala University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Distributed systems and fault tolerance
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Logic, programming, and type systems
Keywords
snapshot isolation, serializability, transaction isolation, data consistency, concurrency control

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Cahill, M. J., Röhm, U., & Fekete, A. D. (2008). Serializable isolation for snapshot databases. Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data. https://doi.org/10.1145/1376616.1376690