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Design and implement an in-memory key-value store that supports set, transactional begin, commit, and abort operations.
- Technical PM
- Top Interview Questions
- Hard
- 15 min
Focus on outlining the architecture of your in-memory key-value store, emphasizing the data structures you'll use to store key-value pairs and manage transactions. Discuss how you will handle concurrency, ensuring that operations like set and transaction management (begin, commit, abort) are thread-safe. Be prepared to explain your choice of algorithms for transaction management, such as two-phase commit or locking mechanisms, and how they impact performance and consistency. Additionally, consider edge cases like handling failures during transactions and how you will ensure data integrity.
What this question tests
- Technical PM
- Structured problem solving
- Communication
- Trade-off reasoning
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