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Not a charitable interpretation of the parent comment. Even though databases allow concurrent transactions, commiting these transactions with complete sequentia
by ericpauley 7y ago
Not a charitable interpretation of the parent comment. Even though databases allow concurrent transactions, commiting these transactions with complete sequential consistency is still an inherently serial process, at least insofar as it cannot be generally split across machines.
- adamfeldman 7y agoThere are distributed databases that support serializable transactions across clusters of machines. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/serializable-lockless-distributed-isolation-cockroachdb https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/serializable-lockless-dis...