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)

Paper ID: hf4863a71e7cf73aa
Venue: PODS
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 11,687 | 21.43%
DOI: 10.1145/3584372.3588672

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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}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
11,291	Using Read Promotion and Mixed Isolation Levels for Performant Yet Serializable Execution of Transaction Programs	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,476	When View- and Conflict-Robustness Coincide for Multiversion Concurrency Control	2024	PODS	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
19	A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels	1995	SIGMOD	0.00058781151
237	Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases	2008	SIGMOD	0.00023660039
726	Serializable Snapshot Isolation in PostgreSQL	2012	VLDB	0.00014459037
1,102	Elle: Inferring Isolation Anomalies from Experimental Observations	2021	VLDB	0.00012004972
1,194	Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations	2014	VLDB	0.00011586405
2,691	Allocating Isolation Levels to Transactions	2005	PODS	8.1249357e-05
10,136	Robustness against Read Committed for Transaction Templates	2021	VLDB	5.0747767e-05
10,137	Deciding Robustness for Lower SQL Isolation Levels	2020	PODS	5.0747767e-05

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