Computer Science · Databases & Data Systems

Concurrency Control

A topic within Databases & Data Systems, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.

Reading on Concurrency Control

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Paper1976

Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base

Jim Gray, Raymond A. Lorie, Gianfranco R. Putzolu & Irving L. Traiger

Defines a hierarchy of lock granularities and named degrees of consistency weaker than full serialisability, giving system designers a vocabulary for the isolation trade-offs they were already making informally.

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Paper1995

A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels

Berenson et al.

Shows that the SQL standard defines isolation levels by which anomalies they forbid rather than by any underlying model, and that real systems exploit the gap.

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Reading on Concurrency Control

Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base

A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels

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