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  "status": "unknown",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": null,
  "lastSeen": null,
  "updated": "2026-10-19",
  "slug": "fractured-read",
  "term": "Fractured read",
  "aliases": [
    "Fractured reads"
  ],
  "definition": "A fractured read observes a version from one transaction together with an older version of another item that transaction wrote.",
  "note": "The companion item may be read before or after the observed version; read order alone cannot remove the fracture. [ramp]",
  "related": [
    "read-atomic-isolation",
    "monotonic-atomic-view",
    "linearizability"
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "ramp",
      "title": "Bailis et al. Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions. SIGMOD 2014, sections 3-4. DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2588562.",
      "url": "https://www.bailis.org/papers/ramp-sigmod2014.pdf",
      "accessed": "2026-10-19"
    },
    {
      "id": "hesela-consistency",
      "title": "Hesela: storage consistency and read-set visibility examples.",
      "url": "https://hesela.com/analyses/storage-consistency-ordering/#read-atomic",
      "accessed": "2026-10-19"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": [
    "This record describes an anomaly, not a device lifecycle; firstSeen is unset and status is unknown."
  ]
}