Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions in a Multiversion Setting
Summary: Mixed robustness for MVCC: given a heterogeneous allocation of RC/SI/SSI (as in Postgres/Oracle), decide whether every allowed interleaving is serializable. Presents a polynomial-time decision procedure and a polynomial algorithm to compute optimal robust allocations. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Brecht Vandevoort (Hasselt University)
- 2. Bas Ketsman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- 3. Frank Neven (Hasselt University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{vandevoort_pods23,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '23},
title = {{Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions in a Multiversion Setting}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584372.3588672},
doi = {10.1145/3584372.3588672},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Vandevoort, Brecht and Ketsman, Bas and Neven, Frank},
year = {2023}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,893 | Using Read Promotion and Mixed Isolation Levels for Performant Yet Serializable Execution of Transaction Programs | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,128 | When View- and Conflict-Robustness Coincide for Multiversion Concurrency Control | 2024 | PODS | 5.093636e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00058720861 |
| 245 | Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases | 2008 | SIGMOD | 0.00023458287 |
| 733 | Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00014533437 |
| 1,080 | Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations | 2021 | VLDB | 0.00012257972 |
| 1,187 | Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations | 2014 | VLDB | 0.00011760199 |
| 2,646 | Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions | 2005 | PODS | 8.2970356e-05 |
| 9,954 | Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates | 2021 | VLDB | 5.1895077e-05 |
| 9,955 | Deciding Robustness for Lower SQL Isolation Levels | 2020 | PODS | 5.1895077e-05 |
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