Monday 14 September 2015

ACID Properties

ACID Properties

When a transaction processing system creates a transaction, it will ensure that the transaction will have certain characteristics

Atomicity

The atomicity property identifies that the transaction is atomic. An atomic transaction is either fully completed, or is not begun at all. Any updates that a transaction might affect on a system are completed in their entirety. If for any reason an error occurs and the transaction is unable to complete all of its steps, the then system is returned to the state it was in before the transaction was started. An example of an atomic transaction is an account transfer transaction. The money is removed from account A then placed into account B. If the system fails after removing the money from account A, then the transaction processing system will put the money back into account A, thus returning the system to its original state. This is known as a rollback


Consistency

Data is either committed or roll back, not “in-between” case where something has been updated and something hasn’t and it will never leave your database till transaction finished. If the transaction completes successfully, then all changes to the system will have been properly made, and the system will be in a valid state. If any error occurs in a transaction, then any changes already made will be automatically rolled back. This will return the system to its state before the transaction was started. Since the system was in a consistent state when the transaction was started, it will once again be in a consistent state. 


Isolation 

No transaction sees the intermediate results of the current transaction. We have two transactions both are performing the same function and running at the same time, the isolation will ensure that each transaction separate from other until both are finished.

Durability

Once transaction completed whatever the changes made to the system will be permanent even if the system crashes right after

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