The subject technology receives a first transaction. The subject technology assigns a first read version to the first transaction, the first read version indicating a first version of the linearizable storage. The subject technology performs a read operation from the first transaction on a table in a database. The subject technology determines a first commit version identifier corresponding to first data resulting from the read operation. The subject technology, in response to determining that a particular write operation is absent from the first transaction, proceeding to execute a different transaction and foregoing to perform a commit process in connection with the first transaction.