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I have located many resources on the web giving general overviews of MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) concepts, but no detailed technical references on exactly how it should work or be implemented. Are there any documents online, or books offline, that contain enough theory (and a bit of practical help, ideally) on which to base an implementation? I wish to emulate more or less what PostgreSQL does.
(For info I will be implementing it in SAS using SAS/Share - which provides some locking primitives and concurrent read/write access to the underlying data store, but nothing in the way of transaction isolation or proper DBMS features. If anyone is familiar with SAS/Share and thinks this is an impossible task, please shout!)
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MVCC is one of the most widely implemented concurrency control algorithms because reads do not block other reads and writes do not block other reads or writes. This means that we can safely and concurrently have lots of clients reading and writing simultaneously without blocking each other.
InnoDB multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) treats secondary indexes differently than clustered indexes. Records in a clustered index are updated in-place, and their hidden system columns point undo log entries from which earlier versions of records can be reconstructed.
Multiversion concurrency control (MCC or MVCC), is a concurrency control method commonly used by database management systems to provide concurrent access to the database and in programming languages to implement transactional memory.
Yes, since SQL Server 2005. The SQL Server terminology is "row-versioning isolation levels". See the product documentation tree starting at Locking and Row Versioning. Note in particular that there are two separate "MVCC" implementations, read committed isolation using row versioning (RCSI) and snapshot isolation (SI).
Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques and Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery are authoritative source of transaction processing.
Both these books are also mentioned in PostgreSQL Wiki.
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