Understanding Repeatable Read and Snapshot Isolation in Databases

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There is a compromise called repeatable read, where you continue to see the same value for a piece of data until you commit
Snapshot isolation is what people usually mean by repeatable read and is the default for MongoDB
When starting a transaction in MongoDB, you read from a version of the data for the rest of the transaction

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