Immutability, MVCC, and Garbage Collection

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Baron Schwartz. "Immutability, MVCC, and Garbage Collection." xaprb.com, December 2013. Archived at archive.org

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Immutability, MVCC, and Garbage Collection

Immutable databases seem elegant but create difficult tradeoffs, sometimes resolved via short-term immutability.

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