Data & Databases

Snapshot Isolation

An isolation approach in which a transaction reads from a consistent database snapshot rather than seeing every concurrent commit. Write conflict rules also matter. A stable snapshot does not, by itself, guarantee that every concurrent outcome is equivalent to a serial execution.

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