August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Database concurrency
A relational database system can handle many simultaneous connections. Having a database that performs well is only useful if it can handle multiple processes accessing and changing data at the same time. This is what database concurrency is all about.
Concurrency control ensures that database transactions that are performed concurrently maintain data integrity. We'll now begin looking at concurrency by learning about database transactions.