History
Multiversion concurrency control is described in some detail in the 1981 paper "Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems" by Philip Bernstein and Nathan Goodman, then employed by the Computer Corporation of America. Bernstein and Goodman's paper cites a 1978 dissertation by David P. Reed which quite clearly describes MVCC and claims it as an original work.
The first shipping, commercial database software product featuring MVCC was Digital's VAX Rdb/ELN. The second was InterBase, which is still an active, commercial product.
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