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>if your database system can't do lock-free reads, your database is broken Yep.
by linuxhansl 14y ago
>if your database system can't do lock-free reads, your database is broken
Yep.
- rdtsc 14y agoI know CouchDB doesn't do read locking. What are other ones out there?
- jackowayed 14y agoDatomic.
- pdog 14y agoPostgres and Oracle?
- mace 14y agoPostgreSQL uses MVCC to ensure ACID compliance without read locks. Uncommitted concurrent transactions are isolated from each other.
- coolestuk 14y agoNot doing read locking is not a game-changer. Firebird doesn't do read locking. Neither does Lotus Notes. Both have been around about 20 years.
- Locke1689 14y agoNot doing read locking alone. Combine it with a planet-scale data storage system...