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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by pdog on Sunday September 16, 2012 @03:06AM (#4528551)
Postgres and Oracle?
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Re:Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database by mace on Sunday September 16, 2012 @03:57AM (#4528617)
PostgreSQL uses MVCC to ensure ACID compliance without read locks. Uncommitted concurrent transactions are isolated from each other.
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