Thinking Out Loud · Jan 1, 2024
Two Models, Two Guarantees: Serializability for Isolation, Linearizability for Consistency
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How do modern databases and distributed systems ensure correctness while allowing operations to run concurrently? Two foundational guarantees — serializability and linearizability — offer different answers depending on whether you care about logical correctness or real-time visibility. In this post, we’ll explore what they are, how they differ,
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