All You Need to Know about Isolation Levels and Read Inconsistencies
Just like real life, the world of computer science is replete with trade-offs. Relational databases are no exception. When interacting with relational databases, we face the dilemma between data consistency and transaction concurrency. The former guarantees the data is trustworthy, while the latter ensures relational databases can conduct transactions swiftly. Both are desirable qualities of relational databases, but we cannot simultaneously achieve them to the fullest extent....