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write skew

write skew

🔧 Distributed Systems Reliability

two transactions each write different objects, with each failing to observe the other's writes

write skew in a sentence

“Write skew allowed two doctors to simultaneously go off-call, violating the one-on-call rule.”

Related Words

fractured read

one transaction writes two objects; another reads the current version of one but an older version of the other

dirty write

transactions overwrite one another forming a cycle linked purely by write-write dependencies (G0)

aborted read

an aborted transaction's write is visible to a committed transaction (G1a)

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

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