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Transactions & MVCC

MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) with snapshot isolation and deadlock detection.

Usage

import barabadb/core/mvcc

var tm = newTxnManager()
let txn = tm.beginTxn()

# Write operations
discard tm.write(txn, "key1", cast[seq[byte]]("value1"))
discard tm.write(txn, "key2", cast[seq[byte]]("value2"))

# Savepoint
tm.savepoint(txn)
discard tm.write(txn, "key3", cast[seq[byte]]("value3"))
discard tm.rollbackToSavepoint(txn)  # undo key3

# Commit
discard tm.commit(txn)

Transaction Isolation

BaraDB uses snapshot isolation:

  • Readers don't block writers
  • Writers don't block readers
  • Each transaction sees a consistent snapshot

Deadlock Detection

import barabadb/core/deadlock

var detector = newDeadlockDetector()
if detector.detectCycle(txn1, txn2):
  echo "Deadlock detected!"

Write-Ahead Log

import barabadb/storage/wal

var wal = newWAL("./wal")
wal.append(txnId, "SET key value")
wal.flush()

Savepoints

Nested transaction savepoints:

tm.savepoint(txn, "sp1")
# ... operations ...
tm.rollbackToSavepoint(txn, "sp1")

Formal Verification

The MVCC / Snapshot Isolation protocol is formally specified in TLA+:

  • Spec: formal-verification/mvcc.tla
  • Verified properties:
    • NoDirtyReads — transactions never read uncommitted data
    • ReadOwnWrites — transactions always see their own writes
    • WriteWriteConflict — first-committer-wins (no two committed transactions write the same key)

Run TLC locally:

cd formal-verification
java -cp tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC -config models/mvcc.cfg mvcc.tla