Database
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Transaction
Quick Definition
Single unit of work that succeeds or fails completely
Full Definition
A sequence of database operations treated as a single unit that succeeds or fails completely.
Examples
BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, isolation levels, savepoints
Related Terms
acid
concurrency-control
More Database Terms
Time-Series Database
Database optimized for time-stamped data storage
Cassandra
Distributed NoSQL database with high availability and scalability
Sharding
Horizontal data partitioning across multiple instances
Write Ahead Log
Persistence mechanism writing changes to log before database
ORM
Mapping object-oriented code to database tables
Denormalization
Intentionally adding redundancy to improve reads