
write skew
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