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§ WAL and ARIES

created 2026-04-27
  • CMU Databases: BusTub
  • MVCC .
  • Refs and Transactions .
  • Linked load store conditional .
  • WAL: write ahead log for DBs.
  • Key point: KV store has fixed size txn, but RDBMS does not.
  • On the other hand, a DB will need to write down both what the txn will do, as well as how to revert this txn. So there is ARIES, and a do-undo log.
  • Also consider the failure case where you run out of disk space when writing a WAL.
  • Aries tutorial: https://yashagw.github.io/blog/db-recovery/
  • Database design and implementation
  • State Machine Replication
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