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Atomicity vs Isolation

Published on: July 31, 2015

From the perspective of a transaction, Isolation: How should I see effects of other transactions. Atomicity: How other transactions see my effects.

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SC vs Linearizability

Published on: September 23, 2014

Sequential consistency requires that all data operations appear to have executed atomically in some sequential order that is consistent with the order seen at every individual process. If instead of individual data operations, we apply sequential consistency to transactions, the resultant condition is called serializability in database theory. Linearizability imposes...

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