Strict serializability is harmless
Sérgio Miguel Fernandes, João Cachopo · 2011
Despite many evolutions in the software architecture of enterprise applications, one thing has remained the same over the years: They still use a relational database both for data persistence and transactional support. We argue that such design, once justified by hardware limitations, endured mostly for legacy reasons and is no longer adequate for a significant portion of modern applications running in a new generation of multicore machines with very large memories.