In a database management system (DBMS), concurrency control manages simultaneous access to a database. It prevents two users from editing the same record at the same time and also serializes ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Figure 1 Aria: (1) Transactions in a batch are executed against the same snapshot; (2) To achieve serializability, the transactions that suffer read-after-write conflict (e.g., T3) and ...

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