When is "ACID" ACID? Rarely. | Peter BailisRC: read committed, RR: repeatable read, S: serializability, SI: snapshot isolation, CS: cursor stability, CR: consistent read Instead of providing serializability, many these databases provide one of several weaker variants,2 often when marketing material and documentation claim otherwise.3 There is no fundamental reason why a database shouldn’t support serializability—we have the algorithms, and
