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 FoundationDB \cite{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21} provides serializability using a specialized data structure called \textit{lastCommit} \footnote{See Algorithm 1 referenced in \cite{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouXSNMTABSLRD21}} to implement optimistic concurrency control \cite{kung1981optimistic}.
 This data structure encodes the write sets for recent transactions as a map from key ranges (represented as bitwise-lexicographically-ordered half-open intervals or singleton keys) to most recent write version, represented as a 64-bit integer.