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Re: Lock-free databases

From: -CELKO- <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 5 Nov 2005 16:10:36 -0800
Message-ID: <1131235836.702554.320480@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





>> Is there any significant benefit to making a database lock-free? <<




You have logical concurrency control and optimistic concurrency
control.  Both methods let you read and write at the same time.  And
obviosuly, you save the overhead of locking.



Look at Innerbase (aka Firebird) and its performance.
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