What is the acronym ACID?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=2560 Created: Dec 14, 1999 Author: Jerry Smith (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=9) ACID represents the four properties of every transaction: • Atomicity – Either all of the operations bundled in the transaction are performed successfully or none of them are performed. • Consistency – The transaction must leave any and all datastores that are affected by the transaction in a consistent state. • Isolation – From the application’s perspective, the current transaction is independent, in terms of application logic, from all other transactions running concurrently. • Durability – The transaction’s operations against a datastore must persist.