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  "status": "unknown",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "supersedes": [],
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  "firstSeen": null,
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  "updated": "2026-10-19",
  "slug": "monotonic-atomic-view",
  "term": "Monotonic Atomic View",
  "aliases": [
    "MAV isolation"
  ],
  "definition": "Monotonic Atomic View requires subsequent reads, after observing a transaction's write, to include its effects or later versions for the items read.",
  "note": "MAV alone can permit an earlier old read followed by a new read. The HAT paper combines MAV with item cut isolation to prevent read skew. Its forward-only condition differs from read-atomic isolation. [hat]",
  "related": [
    "read-atomic-isolation",
    "fractured-read",
    "snapshot-isolation"
  ],
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "hat",
      "title": "Bailis et al. Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations. PVLDB 7(3), 181-192, 2013; VLDB 2014. Section 5.1.2.",
      "url": "https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol7/p181-bailis.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": [
    "The cited journal issue is dated 2013 and the conference presentation 2014. No priority date or product lifecycle is inferred. [hat]"
  ]
}