𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬

When building applications that deal with concurrent access to shared data, data consistency becomes a real challenge. Two popular approaches to handle this are Optimistic Locking and Pessimistic Locking. But they serve different purposes and come wi...