A transaction ensures that when you are transferring money from one bank account to another, either the money removed from one shows up on another or no money is removed from the source account at all ...

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Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

One of the prevailing conversations around database systems lately revolves around ACID support. But not everybody knows what is meant by the term ACID. Oh, perhaps they know that it involves how data ...