Now-a-days, distributed databases have taken concentration in the database research. Data distribution and replication offer opportunities for improving performance through parallel query execution ...

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Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a widely employed concurrency control mechanism, as it allows for execution modes where readers never block writers. However, most systems implement only ...

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 ...

Transactional memory systems aim to simplify the development of correct and efficient parallel software by treating sequences of reads and writes to shared memory as transactions. Similar to database ...

In this article I’d like to present a discussion on concurrency handling, concurrency violations and the strategies involved to resolve concurrency conflicts. Concurrency violations: when and why do ...