Challenge 6c: Read Committed Transactions

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Strengthened isolation to Read Committed level while maintaining high availability. This eliminates dirty reads while keeping the system partition tolerant.

What it Does

Read Committed Semantics

The Implementation

Consistency Improvements

Over Read Uncommitted:

The Trade-offs

Gained:

Lost:

Real-World Usage

Read Committed is the default isolation level for:

It hits the sweet spot between consistency and performance for many workloads.

The Full Journey

From weakest to strongest isolation levels we've built:

  1. Read Uncommitted: Maximum availability, dirty reads allowed

  2. Read Committed: No dirty reads, still highly available

  3. Next would be Repeatable Read and Serializable...

Each level trades some availability for stronger consistency guarantees. The key is picking the right level for your use case.

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