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Linearizability is a recency guarantee on reads and writes of a register (an individual object). It doesn’t group operations together into transactions, so it does not prevent problems such as write skew (see “Write Skew and Phantoms”), unless you take additional measures such as materializing conflicts (see “Materializing conflicts”).
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
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