There is a paper exploring this concept: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~kdaudjee/ED.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~kdaudjee/ED.pdf UI wise it does not make sense to ha

There is a paper exploring this concept: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~kdaudjee/ED.pdf https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~kdaudjee/ED.pdf UI wise it does not make sense to have this distinction, as the window to get durability is a small fraction of a second. But for concurrent modifications the reduction in lock duration can mean an order of magnitude throughput.