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Quantifying Isolation Anomalies

Summary: Introduces a microbenchmark quantifying how fast integrity violations arise under different isolation levels. A probabilistic model ties violation rate to config, showing Snapshot Isolation can beat MV-Read Committed in regimes; measurements validate it. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9849
Venue
VLDB
Year
2009
Pagerank
6.2757607e-05
Overall Rank
4,343 | 69.79%
DOI
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9,756 RushMon: Real-time Isolation Anomalies Monitoring 2018 SIGMOD 4.2896011e-05
9,815 Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates 2021 VLDB 4.2783272e-05
10,729 TxnSails: Achieving Serializable Transaction Scheduling with Self-Adaptive Isolation Level Selection 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
10,892 Leopard: A General Test Suite for Isolation Level Verification 2024 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
11,689 Performance in the Spotlight 2019 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,757 My Weak Consistency is Strong: When Bad Things Do Not Come in Threes 2017 CIDR 4.1945683e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
23 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00083894938
174 ARIES/KVL: A Key-Value Locking Method for Concurrency Control of Multiaction Transactions Operating on B-Tree Indexes 1990 VLDB 0.00038347904
176 The Dangers of Replication and a Solution 1996 SIGMOD 0.00038197618
190 Models for Studying Concurrency Control Performance: Alternatives and Implications 1985 SIGMOD 0.0003579699
349 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00026440605
1,088 ARIES/IM: An Efficient and High Concurrency Index Management Method Using Write-Ahead Logging 1992 SIGMOD 0.00014161003
1,505 Key Range Locking Strategies for Improved Concurrency 1993 VLDB 0.00011627322
2,133 Automating the Detection of Snapshot Isolation Anomalies 2007 VLDB 9.4752131e-05
2,950 The Performance Of Concurrency Control Algorithms For Database Management Systems 1984 VLDB 7.8329866e-05
3,538 Database Tuning: principles, experiments, and troubleshooting techniques 2002 SIGMOD 6.995825e-05
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