CV-Rules: Serializability Verification of Concurrency Control Protocols via Explicit Transaction Ordering (opens in new tab)

We present CV-rules, an alternative characterization of serializability in which a transaction order constructed by a protocol satisfies two per-read conditions, C-rule (Causality) and V-rule (View Consistency), that constrain the reads-from relation and competing writers. While classical Multi-Version Serialization Graph (MVSG) reasoning characterizes serializability via its acyclicity, our approach requires explicit order construction, enabl...