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.

The paper introduces a new concurrency control protocol called Rebirth-Retire, which addresses the performance bottleneck issues in databases under high-concurrency conflict scenarios. This selection ...

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 ...

The introduction of transactions in MongoDB 4.0 represents possibly the most significant change in MongoDB's architecture since its original release. The lack of a transactional capability previously ...

Multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) is a database optimization technique. MVCC creates duplicate copies of records so that data can be safely read and updated at the same time. With MVCC, database ...

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