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The document discusses the ACID properties that ensure reliability in database transactions. The four properties are: Atomicity, which ensures transactions are all-or-nothing; Consistency, which maintains data integrity; Isolation, which allows simultaneous transactions to occur without interfering with each other; and Durability, which ensures transaction changes persist even after failures. These properties are enforced by different database managers to ensure reliability during transaction processing.

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Acid

The document discusses the ACID properties that ensure reliability in database transactions. The four properties are: Atomicity, which ensures transactions are all-or-nothing; Consistency, which maintains data integrity; Isolation, which allows simultaneous transactions to occur without interfering with each other; and Durability, which ensures transaction changes persist even after failures. These properties are enforced by different database managers to ensure reliability during transaction processing.

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ACID Properties

The database contains very important data. So it is essential to keep the data reliable in
the database while making the data transaction to and from the database.

In this article, we see ACID Properties in DBMS transaction.

To consider the reliability of the database, there are ACID properties in DBMS
(Database Management System).

ACID Properties-

 It is important to ensure that the database remains consistent before and after the
transaction.

 To ensure the consistency of database, certain properties are followed by all the
transactions occurring in the system.

 These properties are called as ACID Properties of a transaction.

1. Atomicity-

 This property ensures that either the transaction occurs completely or it does not
occur at all.
 In other words, it ensures that no transaction occurs partially.

 That is why, it is also referred to as “All or nothing rule“.

 It is the responsibility of Transaction Control Manager to ensure atomicity of the


transactions.

2. Consistency-

 This property ensures that integrity constraints are maintained.

 In other words, it ensures that the database remains consistent before and after the
transaction.

 It is the responsibility of DBMS and application programmer to ensure consistency of


the database.

3. Isolation-

 This property ensures that multiple transactions can occur simultaneously without
causing any inconsistency.

 During execution, each transaction feels as if it is getting executed alone in the


system.

 A transaction does not realize that there are other transactions as well getting
executed parallely.

 Changes made by a transaction becomes visible to other transactions only after they
are written in the memory.

 The resultant state of the system after executing all the transactions is same as the
state that would be achieved if the transactions were executed serially one after the
other.

 It is the responsibility of concurrency control manager to ensure isolation for all the
transactions.
4. Durability-

 This property ensures that all the changes made by a transaction after its successful
execution are written successfully to the disk.

 It also ensures that these changes exist permanently and are never lost even if there
occurs a failure of any kind.

 It is the responsibility of recovery manager to ensure durability in the database.

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