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Database internals: WAL, MVCC, replication and recovery

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AmazonCodingLast asked Jan 2026

Explain the internals a relational database relies on: write-ahead logging and why it makes commits durable, multi-version concurrency control and how readers avoid blocking writers, how replicas are kept in sync, and how crash recovery replays the log to a consistent state.

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