
aborted read
an aborted transaction's write is visible to a committed transaction (G1a)
aborted read in a sentence
“An aborted read exposed a rolled-back price change to the billing system.”
Related Words
intermediate read
a transaction reads a version from the middle of another transaction rather than its final committed write (G1b)
cyclic information flow
transactions observe or overwrite each other's writes in a cyclic pattern (G1c)
garbage read
a database returns an object version not produced by any write, often from corruption or race conditions
lost update
a committed transaction's effects are lost due to another transaction's concurrent write to the same object (P4)
dirty read
one transaction reads data written by another before that transaction has completed (P1)
non-repeatable read
a transaction modifies data that another ongoing transaction previously read (P2)