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Re:Design Review: Key-Value Storage by Twirrim on Friday November 09, 2018 @01:01AM (#18412625)
I would love to see an example of someone actually knowledgeable about databases who has a different definition for transaction.
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Re:Design Review: Key-Value Storage by erpellan on Friday November 09, 2018 @04:45AM (#18413381)
Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID_(computer_science)

But that's just like, the industry's opinion, man.

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Re:Design Review: Key-Value Storage by Twirrim on Friday November 09, 2018 @10:53AM (#18415297)
Maybe I completely misunderstood the parents description of a transaction, but that was exactly what they were saying.
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