Concurrent and parallel systems form the bedrock of modern computational infrastructures, enabling vast improvements in processing speed, efficiency and scalability.

In a database management system (DBMS), concurrency control manages simultaneous access to a database. It prevents two users from editing the same record at the same time and also serializes ...

What are the drawbacks to multiversion concurrency control (MVCC)? While MVCC offers many benefits, there are two key drawbacks to multiversion concurrency control: Concurrent update control methods ...