High-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1201.0228/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTHigh-Performance Concurrency Control Mechanisms for Main-Memory Databases — mentioned by tintorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4165412urn:hackerpapers:mention:1201.0228:4165412Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:51:44 GMT<p>@Criss Isolation levels are used to specify semantics only. DBMS is free to implement them in different ways. Take a look at this VLDB 2012 paper about optimistic concurrent control in main memory databases, like MemSQL, which also describes implementation of isolation levels: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1201.0228v1.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1201.0228/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DB