What Are ACID Transactions?

Understanding ACID properties in the context of database transactions

Giorgos Myrianthous
Towards Data Science
3 min readJul 5, 2023

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In the context of database operations, a transaction refers to an operation that is considered to be a single logical unit of work and aims to leave the underlying system in a consistent state.

Consistency is maintained by ensuring that all the operations are executed upon…

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