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Serializability

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While transactions typically specify their read and write operations on logical data items, a replicated database has to execute them over the physical data copies.

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  1. Bernstein PA, Hadzilacos V, Goodman N. Concurrency control and recovery in database systems. Reading: Addison Wesley; 1987.

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  1. School of Computer Science, McGill University, 3480 University Street, H3A0E9, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Bettina Kemme

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Leonardo-Campus 3, 48149, Münster, Germany

    Gottfried Vossen

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Kemme, B. (2017). Serializability. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_344-2

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