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Multiversion Serializability and Concurrency Control

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Multiversion concurrency control; Multiversion concurrency control algorithms; Multiversion databases

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Given a multiversion database, where each data item is a sequence of its versions, the number of versions of a data item may be limited or not. If it is unlimited, then each update of a data item over the limit gives rise to its next version. If it is limited, than each update of a data item replaces its oldest version. In case of limited number of versions, a database is called a K-version database. In multiversion databases any read operation of a data item, subsequent to a write operation of this data item, may access any of its currently existing versions. Thus, a multiversion schedule of a transaction set differs from the ordinary, mono-version schedule by a mapping of the data item read operations into the data item version read operations. Multiversion serializability plays the same role for the multiversion databases, as serializability for the ordinary,...

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

    Wojciech Cellary

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dep. of Inf. Systems, Westf. Wilhelms-Univeristät, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Cellary, W. (2018). Multiversion Serializability and Concurrency Control. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_228

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