Write-ahead logging

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Write-ahead logging

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Write-ahead logging - technique for providing atomicity and durability in database systems, for crash and transaction recovery, by recording changes in a log written to stable storage before writing changes to the database. Article “Write-ahead logging” in English Wikipedia has 12.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.65 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Write-ahead logging” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Write-ahead logging”, its content was written by 40 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 85 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 25 times in English Wikipedia and cited 172 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #32535 in June 2003
  • Global: #43285 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #141627 in March 2023
  • Global: #235284 in March 2023

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
19.1472
2Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
12.4292
3English (en)
Write-ahead logging
12.2681
4French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
11.4976
5Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
10.4146
6Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
2.3071
7Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
1.1864
8Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
0.5696
9Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
0.4573
10Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
0.4297
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Write-ahead logging" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Write-ahead logging
644 197
2German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
42 844
3Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
37 038
4Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
33 955
5Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
16 313
6Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
13 482
7French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
4 529
8Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
1 203
9Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
657
10Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
374
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Write-ahead logging" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Write-ahead logging
4 268
2Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
167
3German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
161
4Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
92
5French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
67
6Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
53
7Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
24
8Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
19
9Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
11
10Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Write-ahead logging" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Write-ahead logging
40
2German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
12
3French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
7
4Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
7
5Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
6
6Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
5
7Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
3
8Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
2
9Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
2
10Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Write-ahead logging" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Write-ahead logging
1
2French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
1
3German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
0
4Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
0
5Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
0
6Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
0
7Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
0
8Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
0
9Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
0
10Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Write-ahead logging" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Упреждающая журнализация
110
2English (en)
Write-ahead logging
25
3Japanese (ja)
ログ先行書き込み
8
4Korean (ko)
로그 선행 기입
8
5German (de)
WAL-Prinzip
7
6French (fr)
Write-ahead logging
5
7Chinese (zh)
预写式日志
4
8Persian (fa)
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
3
9Ukrainian (uk)
WAL-журналювання
2
10Spanish (es)
Registro de escritura anticipada
0
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in June 2025:
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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
WAL-Prinzip
enEnglish
Write-ahead logging
esSpanish
Registro de escritura anticipada
faPersian
پیش‌نویس ثبت وقایع
frFrench
Write-ahead logging
jaJapanese
ログ先行書き込み
koKorean
로그 선행 기입
ruRussian
Упреждающая журнализация
ukUkrainian
WAL-журналювання
zhChinese
预写式日志

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#141627
03.2023
Global:
#235284
03.2023

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#32535
06.2003
Global:
#43285
06.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Write-ahead logging from Wikipedia articles about Two-phase commit protocol, Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability, Log-structured merge-tree, NoSQL database management system and PostgreSQL. Whereas reading the article about Write-ahead logging people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Algorithms for Recovery and Isolation Exploiting Semantics, Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability, Journaling file system, Shadow paging and Stable storage.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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