fractured-read · unknown · also Fractured reads

Fractured read

A fractured read observes a version from one transaction together with an older version of another item that transaction wrote.

The companion item may be read before or after the observed version; read order alone cannot remove the fracture. [1]

Relations

related
Read-atomic isolation, Monotonic Atomic View, Linearizability

Citations

  1. Bailis et al. Scalable Atomic Visibility with RAMP Transactions. SIGMOD 2014, sections 3-4. DOI: 10.1145/2588555.2588562. (accessed 2026-10-19)

Further reading

  1. Hesela: storage consistency and read-set visibility examples. (accessed 2026-10-19)
Sources & caveats
  • This record describes an anomaly, not a device lifecycle; firstSeen is unset and status is unknown.

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