The Acid Properties in details.

The ACID Properties explanation

When you use transactions, your operations will always execute with a suite of four guarantees. These four guarantees are well known as the ACID properties of transctions. The word ACID stands for atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability. The followin glist explains all Properties.

ATOMICITY
guarantees that many operations are bundled together and appear as one contiguous unit of work. In our banking example, when we you transfer money from one bank to another bank you want to add funds to one account and add to another account, and you want both operations to occur or neither operations to occur. Atomicity - guaranty that operations performed within a transctions undergo an all or nothing paradigm either all the database updates are performed or nothing happens if an error occurs at any time. Many different parties can participate in the transction, such as a enterprise bean, COBRA object , servlet and Database drivers. Each transction participant votes on  whether the transction should be successful, and if any of votes no, then the transctions fails. If a transction fails, all the partial database updates are automatically undone. In this way, you can think of transctions as a robust way of performing error handling.

CONSISTENCY
guarantees that a transction leaves the system's  state to  be consistent after a transction completes. what is a consistent system state? A bank system state could be consistent if the rule bank account balance must always be positiveis always followed. This is an example of an invariant set of rules that defines a consitent system state. During the course of a transction, these rules may be vilolated, resulting in a temporarly inconsistent state. Remember that transctions execute automatically as one contiguous unit of work. Thus, to a third party, it appears that the systems state is always consistent. Atomicity helps enforce that the system always consistent. Atomicity helps enforce that the system always appears to be consistent.

ISOLATION
It protects concurrently executing transctions without seeing each others incomplete results. isolation allows multiple transctions to read or write to a database without knowing about each other because each transction is isolated from the others. this is useful for multiple clients modifying a database at once. It appears to each client that he or she is the only client modifying the database at time. For example if you write a bannk account data to database, the transction may obtain locks on the bank account record or table. The ocks guarantee that, while the transctions is occuring, no other concurrent updates can interfere. This enables many users to modify the same set of data base records simultaneously without concern for the interleaving of databse operations.

DURABILITY
It guarantees that updates to managed resources, such as database records, survive failures. Some examples of failures are machine crashing, networks crashing, hard disks crashing and power failures. Recoverable resources keep a transctional log for exactly this purpose. If the resouces crashes, the permanent data can be restructured by reapplying the same steps in the log.

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