- Atomicity is a feature of databases systems dictating where a transaction must be
all-or-nothing. - That is, the transaction must either fully happen, or not happen at all. It must not complete partially.
- Each transaction is considered as one unit and either runs to completion or is not executed at all.
- In database systems, atomicity is the ACID property.
- The ability to abort a transaction on error and have all writes from that transaction discarded is the defining feature of ACID atomicity.
It involves the following two operations.
- Abort - If a transaction aborts, changes made to the database are not visible.
- Commit - If a transaction commits, changes made are visible.
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| Redis Transaction Lock |