Transactions are omnipresent in today’s enterprise systems, providing data integrity even in highly concurrent environments. So let’s get started by first defining the term and the context where you might usually employ it.
A transaction is a collection of read/write operations succeeding only if all contained operations succeed.
Inherently a transaction is characterized by four properties (commonly referred as ACID) :
- Atomicity
- Consistency
- Isolation
- Durability
