On 2/17/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that the main difference is that rollbacks are
> inexpensive for us, but expensive for Oracle.
Yes, Oracle is optimized for COMMIT, we're optimized for ROLLBACK :)
In all seriousness, last time I checked Oracle's MVCC was covered by
two patents.
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