In database systems, atomicity (/ˌætəˈmɪsəti/; from Ancient Greek: ἄτομος, romanized: átomos, lit. 'undividable') is one of the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency...
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In database systems, isolation is one of the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transaction properties. It determines how transaction...
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describes some ideal properties of a database transaction: atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. A database built with one DBMS is not portable...
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is a type of database management system that stores data in a structured format using rows and columns. Many relational database systems are equipped...
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Valence (chemistry), sometimes referred to as atomicity Atomicity (database systems), a property of database transactions which are guaranteed to either...
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Quorum (distributed computing) (redirect from Quorum (Distributed Systems))
commit method to ensure transaction atomicity in the presence of network partitioning. In a distributed database system, a transaction could execute its...
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"Atomic" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles beginning with Atomic All pages with titles containing Atomic Atom (disambiguation) Atomicity (database systems)...
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Isolation Exploiting Semantics (ARIES). Atomicity Consistency Isolation Relational database management system Data breach Gray, Jim (1981). "The transaction...
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contrasted with database management systems that employ a disk storage mechanism. In-memory databases are faster than disk-optimized databases because disk...
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ACID (redirect from Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability)
In computer science, ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity...
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Linearizability (redirect from Atomicity (programming))
succeeds completely, or it fails and does nothing. (ACID databases refer to this principle as atomicity.) If the operation fails (usually due to concurrent...
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occur until the atomic commit is fully completed. Atomic commits in database systems fulfil two of the key properties of ACID, atomicity and consistency...
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Write-ahead logging (category Database algorithms)
a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A write ahead log is an append-only auxiliary...
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the President of General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS). Electromagnetic Systems Group The Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) Group is a supplier...
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relational database management systems Comparison of object–relational database management systems Database management system List of relational database management...
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federated database system (FDBS) is a type of meta-database management system (DBMS), which transparently maps multiple autonomous database systems into a...
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over multiple nodes, and might include systems such as databases, storage managers, file systems, messaging systems, and other data managers. In a distributed...
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Transaction log (redirect from Database log)
whose changes were not yet materialized in the database are re-applied. Both are done to ensure atomicity and durability of transactions. This term is not...
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In database systems, consistency (or correctness) refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed...
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All for Nothing (disambiguation) Atomicity (database systems), a property that indicates that, in a series of database operations, either all occur or...
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A transaction's last action is either to commit or abort. To maintain atomicity, a transaction must undo all its actions if it is aborted. A schedule...
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Online transaction processing (category Database management systems)
type of database system used in transaction-oriented applications, such as many operational systems. "Online" refers to the fact that such systems are expected...
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obtain a database system which satisfies the ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) of a database management system. One of...
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PostgreSQL (redirect from PostgreSQL Data Base Management System)
relational database management system (RDBMS) emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. PostgreSQL features transactions with atomicity, consistency...
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Shadow paging (category Database algorithms)
shadow paging is a technique for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A page in this context refers to a unit...
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Hewlett–Packard and Frequency & Time Systems. During the 1950s, the National Radio Company sold more than 50 units of the first atomic clock, the Atomichron. In...
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Distributed concurrency control (category Databases)
saved by using the atomic commitment protocol, which is needed in a distributed database for (distributed) transactions' atomicity. Global concurrency...
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NoSQL (redirect from Non-relational database)
contains all the data needed for a specific task. A database is marked as supporting ACID properties (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) or join...
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First normal form (category Database normalization)
Date suggests that "the notion of atomicity has no absolute meaning":: 112 [pages needed] a value may be considered atomic for some purposes, but may be considered...
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were widely used in the early mainframe database management systems, such as the Information Management System (IMS) by IBM, and now describe the structure...
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